Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
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
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
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward