Background pattern 273 #2042
 Dark  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

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Foggy Birds #579
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?

Source Pete Fecteau

Background pattern 291 #1931
 Dark  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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

Inflicted #117
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.

Source Hugo Loning

Dark Brown Wood Background (Tile-able) #886
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Tile-able Dark Brown Wood Background. Feel free to use it as a background image in your designs or somewhere on the web. By the way, the color seems to be close to Coffee Brown.

Source V. Hartikainen

Fabric (Plaid) #591
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.

Source James Basoo

Background pattern 270 #2061
 Dark  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 333 #1741
 Noise  CC 0

The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Tessellation 15 (colour 2) #2221
 Yellow  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

seigaiha subtle color #2278
 Pink  CC 0

This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .

Source Yamachem

Background pattern 195 #2587
 Grid  CC 0

Inspired by a pattern I saw in a 19th century book. This seamless pattern was created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Polaroid@2X #188
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.

Source Daniel Beaton

Decorative divider 252 #2065
 Dark  CC 0

Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 230 #2150
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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

Background pattern purple #1998
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Background pattern blue #1940
 Blue  CC 0

Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady

Source Firkin