From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
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
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
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
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo