From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett