From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin