Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin