A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse
Source GDJ
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
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
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern I saw in a 19th century book. This seamless pattern was created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin