Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Seamless Olive Green Web Background Image
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Original minus the background
Source Firkin
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
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
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner