From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
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
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC Mossy stone tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
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
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
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
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen