From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
A frame using leaves from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mayapujiati
Source Firkin
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen