From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
Source Firkin
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman