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Worn Dots@2X #710
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Page ornament #1987
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Overlapping planks 6 #2570
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Blu Stripes@2X #618
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Background pattern black #2028
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
White Texture #131
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Wavy background #2020
Green CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Floral design 71 #2429
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
Green CC 0A 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
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background #390
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
P5@2X #1114
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Background pattern 315 (colour 4) #1842
Colorful CC 0The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 (colour 4) #2458
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 214 (colour 2) #2376
Red CC 0A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Cube Well & Blue #1699
Wall CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
The Black Mamba #769
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Floral background 20 #1813
Red CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin