Background pattern 248 #2181
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
Cardboard CC BY-SA 3.0A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 323 (colour 3) #1810
Yellow CC 0Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background@2X #472
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 234 (colour 4) #2256
Pink CC 0Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Epithalamion tailpiece #2527
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Seamless tile 4 #1812
Red CC 0Not strictly seamless in that opposite edges are not identical. But they do marry up to make an interesting pattern
Source Firkin
Bark #1288
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Gold Wall & Dark #1254
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Redox 02 #851
Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Floral pattern 9 #2043
Dark CC 0The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
Source Firkin
The Black Mamba@2X #770
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
blue wave-seigaiha #2535
Blue CC 0The 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
Grid Me@2X #606
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background #489
Noise CC 0Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 6 #2444
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Stamped Dots On Metal #1083
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Winding Stripes Background Pattern #1164
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen