Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC bark from fur tree tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers