Black Linen 2@2X #104
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
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Carbon Fiber #3
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background@2X #533
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Light Gray Fabric Pattern With Faded Stripes #965
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
Green CC 0A 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
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background@2X #554
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Texturetastic Gray #615
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
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
Beige Stripes #938
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colourful background 32 #2173
Colorful CC 0Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Knitted Netting #603
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Kinda Jean@2X #1063
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Padded #61
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background #573
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Floral background 22 #1780
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Page ornament #1988
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Frozen Surface With Diagonal Stripes #912
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Leafy pattern black #1972
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
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
Background pattern 245 (colour 6) #2187
Colorful CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 283 #1856
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Stacked Circles@2X #674
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Leafy pattern 12 #1764
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin