A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
U.S.-based National Fire Protection Association standard fire diamond for flagging risks posed by hazardous materials. The red diamond has a number 0-4 depending on flammability. The blue diamond has a number 0-4 depending on health hazard. The yellow has a number 0-4 depending on reactivity. the white square has a special notice, e.g OX for oxidizer.
Source Firkin
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
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