Axiom Pattern@2X #331
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.

Source Struck Axiom

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White Sand #19
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.

Source Atle Mo

Fleurs-de-lys pattern 2 (colour) #2204
 Colorful  CC 0

Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.

Source Firkin

Frozen Surface With Diagonal Stripes #912
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.

Source V. Hartikainen

Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
 Pink  CC 0

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

Background pattern 274 #2041
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3-remix #215
 Noise  CC 0

This is the remix of "Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks.

Source Yamachem

Pinstripe@2X #36
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray pattern with a thin pinstripe.

Source Brandon

Dark Mosaic #121
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.

Source John Burks

Background pattern 306 (colour 5) #1879
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Retro Circles Background 5@2X #425
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 5

Source GDJ

Tessellation 16 (colour 6) #2210
 Colorful  CC 0

The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Light Orange Brown Wallpaper #911
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Background pattern 248 (colour) #2180
 Yellow  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 314 #1839
 Yellow  CC 0

The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin