A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen