More Textures
Light Brown Wallpaper With Vertical Stripes #905
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.

Source V. Hartikainen

Grilled Noise #581
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.

Source Dertig Media

Hibiscus Flowers Seamless Background #229
 Fabric  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Stripy checkerboard pattern 2 #1767
 Dark  CC 0

Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts

Source Firkin

texture hearts pattern #242
 Noise  CC 0

A red heart background texture.

Source GDJ

Floral Pattern Background 3 #218
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Retro Squares Background 2 #416
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Squares Background 2

Source GDJ

Padded #61
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.

Source Chris Baldie

Zodiac pattern #2407
 Colorful  CC 0

A 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

Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
 Dark  CC 0

Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 4 #2446
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
 Pink  CC 0

A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin