Background pattern 8 (greyscale) #210
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
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Decorative divider 231 #2149
Dark CC 0From 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
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background@2X #554
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
P2@2X #1108
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
White Sand #19
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Floral Background No Black@2X #476
Light CC 0Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Background pattern black #2028
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background@2X #781
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Light Toast #759
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Decorative divider 235 #2091
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design@2X #791
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 4 #2446
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
seigaiha subtle color #2278
Pink CC 0This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Background pattern green #2027
Green CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3 #270
Noise CC BY-SA 3.0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 221 #2224
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Seamless Light Background Texture #1023
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
"Rusted Metal", Grunge Background #1087
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 2) #2038
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Reticular Tissue@2X #764
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Colorful Stripes Background #992
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral background 2@2X #430
Wall CC 0Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Hexagonal pattern (colour) #2378
Yellow CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Redox 02@2X #852
Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers