Diagonal Noise@2X #182
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
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Decorative divider 282 #1857
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Dark Mosaic@2X #122
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Subtle Grey@2X #956
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Brick #1378
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Page ornament #1993
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Colorful Stripes Background #992
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Translucent Fibres #943
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Old Cardboard, Background Texture #1213
Cardboard CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Dark Matter #601
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Stars Geometric Pattern Prismatic No Background@2X #810
Noise CC 0Abstract Stars Geometric Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
Colourful background #2010
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Vintage Speckles #653
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Elastoplast #282
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
3D Wood #1475
Wood CC 0Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
edo pattern-samekomon #2271
Dark CC 0The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
Dark Stitched Leather Background #1121
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Fence panel #2577
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Rocky Wall #41
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Spiral pattern 3 #1934
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Confectionary #1342
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
Decorative divider 231 #2149
Dark CC 0From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern 2 #2396
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