Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman