From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
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Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim