From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
This light yellow background pattern consists of an irregular pattern of spots. Here's a light background pattern with yellowish tint.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern 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
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen