This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern which was made using stripe-like things including borders.I used OCAL cliparts called "Blue Greek Key With Lines Border" uploaded by "GR8DAN" and "daisy border" uploaded by "johnny_automatic".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim