As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts a tiled seamless pattern.The tile represents four leaves aligned every 90 ° , which may look like a bird or a dragon .The original leaf design is from a Japanese old book.
Source Yamachem
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
ZeroCC tileable beechwood wood texture, generated in Neo Texture Edit by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
The tile can be had by using shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape
Source Firkin
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
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Here's an yet another background for websites, with a seamless texture of wood planks this time.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Feel free to download this "Dark Wood" background texture for your web site. The background tiles seamlessly!
Source V. Hartikainen
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen