From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ