From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
To celebrate the new feature, we need some sparkling diamonds.
Source Atle Mo
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen