From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin