From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
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
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight