From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden