This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A yellow tiled background... Blurriness, bokeh effect and rectangles pattern in one mix.
Source V. Hartikainen
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
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
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor