From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A browner version of the original weathered fence texture.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Honestly, who does not like a little pipe and mustache?
Source Luca Errico
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo