Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
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
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
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
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin