Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
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
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso