The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
The image depicts a seamless pattern which was made using stripe-like things including borders.I used OCAL cliparts called "Blue Greek Key With Lines Border" uploaded by "GR8DAN" and "daisy border" uploaded by "johnny_automatic".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin