A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
This is a more minute version of "fishnet 01".The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin