From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Strawberry Pattern Background" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks. I realigned strawberries so as to get seamless and changed the BG color.
Source Yamachem