Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
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 huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
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