Background pattern 336 #1721
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
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Background pattern 227 (colour 4) #2311
Green 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
A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Repeating Wood Straw Background #887
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 272 (colour 2) #2056
Pink CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zodiac sign symbol background #1927
Red CC 0Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Textured Paper Background (Vanilla Yellow) #1219
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Grey Sandbag #641
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Bright Multicolored Floral Background@2X #560
Noise CC 0Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
Gold Scale@2X #285
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Leafy pattern 12 (colour) #1762
Red CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
P5 #1113
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Ecailles@2X #1043
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
Black Wall #1262
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background #499
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Floral background 10 (colour 2) #2045
Pink CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Pinstriped Suit #665
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Green Vertical Stripes, Background Pattern #935
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen