From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
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
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless paper background texture colored in pale yellow. This seamless texture is ideal for those who need a yellow background image for their website. The texture resembles paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald