"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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Tex2res5 #725
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Green Subtle Web Texture #1334
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 202 #2491
Brown CC 0Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
"Grunge-Like" Background Pattern #1126
Grunge CC BY-SA 3.0Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 4) #2393
Fabric CC 0Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Black Linen@2X #64
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black@2X #438
Dark CC 0Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
Merely Cubed@2X #590
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
Square ornament 32 #2433
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
The Black Mamba@2X #770
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Background pattern 208 #2465
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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 Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background@2X #546
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Glossy Diagonal Stripes, Background Pattern #908
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Carbon Fiber@2X #4
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
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black@2X #443
Dark CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
White Plaster@2X #369
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Diamond pattern (colour 8) #2273
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black #445
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Penrose pattern #1956
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background #555
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ