Bamboo Background Pattern #1330
Green CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
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Geometric pattern #2002
Dark CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Mocha Grunge@2X #1100
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Page ornament #1990
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
"Seamless Bark", Website Background. #879
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Chipboard 2 #2579
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5 #406
Dark CC 0Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Background pattern 213 #2412
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Grilled Noise #581
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Leafy pattern 4 #1915
Green CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Polonez Pattern #334
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Tessellation 16 #2215
Yellow CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Retina Wood@2X #924
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Diamond pattern 2 (colour 3) #2266
Colorful CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark Brick Pattern #1032
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 224 (colour 6) #2337
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Mossy planks #2565
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 220 #2360
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Foggy Birds #579
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Background pattern 320 (colour 2) #1829
Dark CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin