From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Formed by distorting an image on Pixabay that was uploaded by gustavorezende. To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo