This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
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
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz