From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
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
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin