Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin