From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
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
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts a tiled seamless pattern.The tile represents four leaves aligned every 90 ° , which may look like a bird or a dragon .The original leaf design is from a Japanese old book.
Source Yamachem
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green