From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
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