Decorative divider 253 #2064
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
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Axiom Pattern@2X #331
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
Silver Scales@2X #190
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Mooning #1140
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
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
Green Fibers@2X #92
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Geometric pattern 7 #1929
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Bamboo Background Pattern #1330
Green CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Wood Web Background #870
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5@2X #466
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Spirals pattern #1994
Colorful CC 0Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Tweed@2X #1151
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 #268
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
Diamonds Are Forever@2X #184
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
Floral design 71 #2429
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Polonez Pattern #334
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Dark Leather@2X #130
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
Whitey #109
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Decorative divider 241 #2084
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 4) #2384
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not 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
White Paperboard #374
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Light Wall #1265
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso