Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
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
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers