From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, 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
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton