From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem