Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
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
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry