From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen