From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The 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
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Seamless Prismatic Geometric Pattern With Background
Source GDJ
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish