From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
This is a seamless pattern of regular hexagon which has a honeycomb structure.
Source Yamachem
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
Zero CC Mossy stone tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso