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Wood Web Background #870
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Fibers@2X #92
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Diagonal Waves #1006
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Vintage pattern #1958
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Cardboard Flat #961
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
Stitched Wool@2X #844
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Background pattern 9 (greyscale) #213
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
"Seamless Bark", Website Background. #879
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Leafy pattern 10 #1775
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Whitey@2X #110
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Little Triangles@2X #688
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Weave@2X #734
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Knitted Sweater #1097
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Background pattern 248 (colour) #2180
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
Polonez Pattern@2X #335
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Floral background 5 #2404
Fabric 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
Light Aluminum@2X #305
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo