Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells book texture, 4k, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso