From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Retro Circles Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo