Black Mamba #57
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.

Source Federica Pelzel

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Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)

Source V. Hartikainen

Vintage pattern #1957
 Grid  CC 0

Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

texture hearts pattern #242
 Noise  CC 0

A red heart background texture.

Source GDJ

Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
 Cardboard  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.

Source V. Hartikainen

White carbon@2X #12
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.

Source Atle Mo

Decorative divider 221 #2224
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.

Source Firkin

Wood Background Pattern #882
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.

Source V. Hartikainen

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 4) #2036
 Colorful  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background #491
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse #197
 Dark  CC 0

Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.

Source GDJ

Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background@2X #535
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Gun Metal #360
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?

Source Nikolay Boltachev

Patchwork Quilt Pattern Background #228
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

"Reptile Skin", Seamless Texture #1119
 Leather  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Retro Circles Background 8@2X #436
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 8

Source GDJ

Triangular Psychosis 2 #234
 Noise  CC 0

A colorful triangular background, variation 2.

Source GDJ

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3@2X #458
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3

Source GDJ

Background pattern 252 (colour 2) #2156
 Brown  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin