Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
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
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
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