From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
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
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
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
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
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
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen