A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin