From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original seamless texture formed from an image on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin