This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
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
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin