From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
This one is something special. I’d call it a flat pattern, too. Very well done, sir!
Source GetDiscount
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso