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
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova