This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green