You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
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
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo