From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
A nice and simple white rotated tile pattern.
Source Another One
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee