Background Patterns - Slate #244
 Fabric  CC 0

If you want png files of thisu can download them here :

Source Viscious-Speed

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Electric recharge #163
 Noise  CC 0

Simple turbulence filter rigged in in inkscape.

Source Lazur URH

Japanese family crest called chidori 02 #2440
 Brown  CC 0

The image depicts a seamless pattern of a Japanese family crest called "chidori" in Japanese .A chidori in Japanese means a plover in English.

Source Yamachem

Vintage tile background #2248
 Brown  CC 0

A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 339 #1709
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The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Background pattern 8 (greyscale) #210
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Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Transparent Square Tiles@2X #299
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.

Source Nathan Spady