Background pattern 274 #2041
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
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Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12 #523
Noise CC 0Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12
Source GDJ
Vichy@2X #72
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
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
Decorative divider #1995
Yellow CC 0From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
Carbon Fiber v2 #105
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
Beige Paper@2X #84
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Background pattern 105@2X #564
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
White Brick Wall@2X #594
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background #534
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 256 #2139
Red CC 0Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Tessellation 10 #2547
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Floral divider 7 #1747
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 2) #2326
Yellow CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark Leather #129
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
Leafy divider (colour) #1759
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 227 (colour 5) #2310
Colorful CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Floral design 100 (version 2) #1773
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Gloomy Stripes #994
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Aged Paper Background Tile #1074
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colourful background #2009
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Background pattern 267 #2067
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Background pattern 18 #202
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Small Steps #1312
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Background pattern 251 (colour 4) #2164
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 306 (colour 2) #1881
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Moss #1290
Wall CC 0ZeroCC tileable moss texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso