An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 6
Source GDJ
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
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
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
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
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ