Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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
Source Firkin
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Not strictly seamless in that opposite edges are not identical. But they do marry up to make an interesting pattern
Source Firkin
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo