A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a design found in 'Konstantinápolyi emlékeim', Miklos Chriszto, 1893.
Source Firkin
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen