It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Neat little photography icon pattern.
Source Hossam Elbialy
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
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
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen