Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
The image depicts a pattern of regular hexagon.As I made to use it for myself,I want to others to use it.Speaking about the ratio of the image, height : width = 2 : √3(1.732...)Ridiculous to say,I realized later that this image is not honey comb pattern.I have to slide the second row.
Source Yamachem
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo