Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
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
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin