Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard