Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A seamless marble-like texture colored in light blue.
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin