In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
This is a more minute version of "fishnet 01".The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin