From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
A seamless paper background texture colored in pale yellow. This seamless texture is ideal for those who need a yellow background image for their website. The texture resembles paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha