Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns