Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman