A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.
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
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin