A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Here's an yet another background for websites, with a seamless texture of wood planks this time.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin