Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
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
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Zero CC tileable hard cover red book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
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
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This one is something special. I’d call it a flat pattern, too. Very well done, sir!
Source GetDiscount
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow