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
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
A blue gray fabric-like texture for websites. An yet another fabric-like texture. It has subtle vertical and diagonal stripes to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Similar to original, but without gaps in between the arrows. This seamless pattern was created from a rectangular tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin