Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12
Source GDJ
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by CatherineClennan
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
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
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ