Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
A nice and simple white rotated tile pattern.
Source Another One
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
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
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Fix side and a seamless pattern formed from circles.
Source SliverKnight
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen