Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia's cakes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav