Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
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Block Well #1696
Colorful CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Retro Intro@2X #894
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Decorative divider 185 #2588
Orange CC 0From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Criss-cross pattern #1895
Dark CC 0A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
Background pattern blue #1940
Blue CC 0Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
"Brown Stone Wall" #1026
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Tiles, Background Pattern #1329
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Circles@2X #307
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Kinda Jean #1062
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
Old Moon@2X #1202
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Little Triangles@2X #688
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 230 (colour 2) #2302
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Worn Dots #709
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Background pattern purple #1952
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral design 95 #1790
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Office@2X #958
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Diamond pattern (colour 3) #2283
Green CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Wavy background #2023
Pink CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
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
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 5) #2392
Fabric CC 0Not 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
Decorative divider 184 #2589
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
Red CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Brick texture floor #1704
Wall CC 0Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon