Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin