From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
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
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
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
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Original minus the background
Source Firkin