From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
A green background pattern with warped vertical stripes and a grunge look.
Source V. Hartikainen
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ