A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
This is the remix of an Openclipart clipart called "Maze" uploaded by "any_ono_mous".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of a maze.
Source Yamachem
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
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
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin