Checkered Light Emboss #280
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker

 More Textures
Background pattern 235 (colour 6) #2250
 Red  CC 0

To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 339 #1709
 Dark  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Mosaic Gems Background@2X #527
 Noise  CC 0

Mosaic Gems Background

Source GDJ

Floral design 70 #2520
 Dark  CC 0

Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 224 (colour 3) #2340
 Colorful  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Light Orange Brown Wallpaper #911
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background #569
 Light  CC 0

Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).

Source GDJ

Colorful Floral Background No Black #481
 Light  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background No Black

Source GDJ

Diagmonds #336
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?

Source INS

Background pattern 252 (colour) #2161
 Colorful  CC 0

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 Brick Wall #593
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.

Source Listvetra

Axiom Pattern #330
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.

Source Struck Axiom

Diamond pattern (colour 6) #2280
 Yellow  CC 0

From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 223 #2353
 Red  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin