Brushed Alum Dark #65
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
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Always Grey@2X #54
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Dark Denim@2X #373
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Cover Pink #1284
Pink CC 0Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Background pattern 202 #2491
Brown CC 0Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Striped Brick@2X #680
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Shattered #951
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
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
Decorative divider 234 #2093
Dark CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Dark Wood #320
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 4) #2384
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Padded #61
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Exclusive Paper@2X #24
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
P5@2X #1114
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Red Gemstone Tiles #1223
Red CC BY-SA 3.0This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Grey Sandbag@2X #642
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Use Your Illusion@2X #918
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Floral background 2@2X #430
Wall CC 0Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
School #1318
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
Plywood Web Background #871
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Flourish pattern (colour) #1737
Yellow CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
60º lines #25
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
White Wall@2X #772
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo