Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen