A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
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
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
I scanned a paper coffee cup. You know, in case you need it.
Source Atle Mo
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Zero CC Mossy stone tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin