Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
This background image is great for using in web design or graphic design projects. And don't forget to visit the homepage. I frequently update this resource with fresh tileable backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed 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
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
This is the remix of "plant pattern 02".I changed the object color to white and the BG to purple.The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem