From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Tiny little flowers growing on your screen. Nice, huh?
Source Themes Tube
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image a seamless pattern of a wire-mesh fence.I want you to use this pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem