From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern of regular hexagon which has a honeycomb structure.
Source Yamachem
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
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
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso