A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova