Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
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
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
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
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
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
Like the name suggests, this background image consists of a pattern of dark bricks. It may be an option for you, if you are looking for something that looks like a brick wall for use as a background on web pages. It's not a masterpiece, but looks pretty nice when is tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ