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45-Degree Fabric #1
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 302 #1894
 Red  CC 0

The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.

Source Firkin

Ravenna@2X #355
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.

Source Sentel

Colourful background #2011
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Background pattern 291 #1931
 Dark  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Broken Noise@2X #365
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.

Source Vincent Klaiber

seigaiha subtle color #2278
 Pink  CC 0

This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .

Source Yamachem

Background pattern 24 #198
 Dark  CC 0

The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Seamless Core Pattern 5 #169
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless Core Pattern 5

Source GDJ

Background pattern 221 #2347
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 308 (colour 2) #1871
 Green  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #1218
 Yellow  CC BY-SA 3.0

A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Checkered Light Emboss #280
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker

crissXcross@2X #112
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.

Source Ashton

Soft Circle Scales@2X #114
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Japanese looking fish scale pattern.

Source Ian Soper

Triangular Psychosis 2 #234
 Noise  CC 0

A colorful triangular background, variation 2.

Source GDJ

Prismatic Dots Background #501
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background

Source GDJ

“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
 Light  CC 0

An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.

Source AdamStanislav