Background pattern 302 (colour 2) #1887
Green CC 0Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
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Mooning #1140
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Mossy planks #2565
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Floral design 70 #2520
Dark CC 0Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 244 #2080
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Pinetree in tortoiseshell(亀甲松) #2538
Dark CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern of Japanese Edo pattern called "kikkou-matsu" or "亀甲松" meaning " tortoiseshell-pinetree".The real pinetree is like this: https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301065077/
Source Yamachem
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
Dark Denim #372
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Decorative divider 185 #2588
Orange CC 0From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Page ornament 29 #2307
Red CC 0From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black #410
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Gray Sand #17
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 238 #2088
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Fence panel #2577
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Striped Brick@2X #680
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Background pattern 245 (colour 2) #2191
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern (colour 5) #2398
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 15 #201
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Woven #290
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
Seed #1289
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Red Gemstone Tiles #1223
Red CC BY-SA 3.0This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Diamond Upholstery@2X #768
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Decorative divider #2001
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
Warped Stripes on Paper #1073
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen