"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture@2X #1222
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background #447
Noise CC 0Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Floral background 22 #1780
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
White Brick Wall #593
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Background pattern 6 #226
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Black Paper #55
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
Background pattern 277 #2029
Dark CC 0A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Vintage pattern #2296
Brown CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Rice Paper 2 #340
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Leafy pattern #1971
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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
flower seamless pattern-remix #2445
Fabric CC 0This is a remix of "flower seamless pattern".I rotated the original image by 90 degrees.This is a seamless pattern of flowers.These horizontal wavy lines are one of Edo patterns which is called "tatewaku or tachiwaku or 立湧" that represents uprising steam or vapor.
Source Yamachem
Dark Circles #306
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 328 (colour 4) #1798
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Orange Striped Background Pattern #909
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern green #1953
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 8 (colour) #211
Noise CC 0Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
White Sand #19
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
"Maple", Seamless Wood Texture #883
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Simple bump #172
Dark CC 0A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Gloomy Stripes #994
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dimension@2X #1174
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Floral pattern 6 (colour 2) #2460
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
White Brick Wall@2X #594
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra