Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
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
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Seamless Pattern III With Background
Source GDJ
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski