Blue Stripes Pattern #969
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
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White Plaster #368
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
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
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
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
Micro Carbon@2X #8
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 7 #227
Noise CC 0Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Wet Paper Background (Pale Yellow) #1224
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 263 #2073
Pink CC 0Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
Gray Striped Background #906
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Decorative divider 300 #1715
Dark CC 0Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
Fancy Deboss #177
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Page ornament #1990
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Floral design 98 (colour) #1781
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 210 #2364
Dark CC 0Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
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
Seamless Stone-Like Background #1057
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cartographer #749
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Dark Fish Skin@2X #1049
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Shapes pattern #2409
Brown 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
Decorative divider 233 #2145
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
Flowers tile #2363
Dark CC 0A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin