Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin