Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
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 Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Tileable Wave Pattern 2" uploaded by "Arvin61r58".Thanks.I added a wire-mesh fence seamless pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless paper background texture colored in pale yellow. This seamless texture is ideal for those who need a yellow background image for their website. The texture resembles paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
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
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ