You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks. https://cloaks.deviantart.com
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
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