Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin