From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
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
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Similar to original, but without gaps in between the arrows. This seamless pattern was created from a rectangular tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The image depicts a seamless pattern of the design which includes a stylized lotus and a stylized crane.I referred to the original image in a book which is into public domain.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin