From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
A green background pattern with warped vertical stripes and a grunge look.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos