Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A lot of people like the icon patterns, so here’s one for your restaurant blog.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso