Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A seamless pattern of leopard skin. It should look nice as a background element on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen