Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
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
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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
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
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova