A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Honestly, who does not like a little pipe and mustache?
Source Luca Errico
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background
Source GDJ
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
This is the remix of an Openclipart clipart called "Maze" uploaded by "any_ono_mous".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of a maze.
Source Yamachem
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Looks like an old rug or a computer chip.
Source Patutin Sergey
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin