Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem