A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor