Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is a remix of "geometrical pattern 01".
Source Yamachem
Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett