crissXcross #111
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
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Bright Squares@2X #88
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background@2X #808
Noise CC 0Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern #1963
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless Light Background Texture #1023
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 245 (colour 2) #2191
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Gray Lines #913
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Concrete Wall 3 #93
Light CC BY-SA 3.0All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 235 #2255
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Knitted Sweater@2X #1098
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Page ornament 21 #2361
Dark CC 0From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Reticular Tissue #763
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Mermaid divider #1970
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Carbon Fiber #3
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 267 #2067
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Textured Paper Background (Vanilla Yellow) #1219
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 306 (colour 2) #1881
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Black Leather Texture (Seamless) #1118
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider #1995
Yellow CC 0From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background@2X #781
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Dark Wall #817
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Grid@2X #975
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Ice Age@2X #638
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
Red CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin