From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton