Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin