Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
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
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable brick texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover red book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Looks like an old rug or a computer chip.
Source Patutin Sergey
A browner version of the original weathered fence texture.
Source Firkin