From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Zero CC tileable Laminate wood texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin