Dark Steel Grid Background Pattern #1081
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!

Source V. Hartikainen

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Paper texture filter #149
 Paper  CC 0

Filter simulating the texture of heavy paper.

Source Kelan

Background pattern 252 (colour 4) #2159
 Light  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Floral Seamless Pattern Background #261
 Fabric  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Wood #49
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.

Source Atle Mo
Based from Cloaks

Xv@2X #315
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.

Source Lasma

Colourful background #2010
 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 336 (colour 3) #1719
 Blue  CC 0

Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.

Source Firkin

Rubber Grip #101
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.

Source Sinisha

Fabric (Plaid) #591
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.

Source James Basoo

Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This 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

Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
 Red  CC 0

A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Dark Denim@2X #373
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.

Source Marco Slooten

Whitey@2X #110
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A white version of the very popular linen pattern.

Source Ant Ekşiler

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2) #2039
 Colorful  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Exclusive Paper #23
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 263 #2073
 Pink  CC 0

Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.

Source Firkin