A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
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
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
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 tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Neat little photography icon pattern.
Source Hossam Elbialy
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen