Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A green background pattern with warped vertical stripes and a grunge look.
Source V. Hartikainen