This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne