Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
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 pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker