Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Remixed 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
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin