Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Looks as if it's spray painted on the wall. You can be sure that this pattern will seamlessly fill your backgrounds on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen