A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
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
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
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
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers