Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin