Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)

Source V. Hartikainen

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Background pattern 29 #200
 Dark  CC 0

Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.

Source Firkin

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

Seamless tile 4 #1812
 Red  CC 0

Not strictly seamless in that opposite edges are not identical. But they do marry up to make an interesting pattern

Source Firkin

regular hexagon pattern #2541
 Grid  CC 0

The image depicts a pattern of regular hexagon.As I made to use it for myself,I want to others to use it.Speaking about the ratio of the image, height : width = 2 : √3(1.732...)Ridiculous to say,I realized later that this image is not honey comb pattern.I have to slide the second row.

Source Yamachem

Retro Circles Background 7 #431
 Unknow  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 7

Source GDJ

Background pattern 6 #225
 Noise  CC 0

Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

blue wave-seigaiha #2535
 Blue  CC 0

The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.

Source Yamachem

Carbon Fiber v2@2X #106
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.

Source Atle Mo

Polonez Pattern@2X #335
 Gray  CC BY-SA 3.0

A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!

Source Radosław Rzepecki

Background pattern 1 #220
 Noise  CC 0

A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 235 (colour 5) #2251
 Blue  CC 0

To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 236 #2249
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin