From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin