Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
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
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
Source Firkin