Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Clover with background for St. Patrick's Day. Add to a card with a doily, ribbon, a leprechaun or other embellishments.
Source BAJ
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso