Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
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