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Background pattern 5 #224
Noise CC 0A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background #394
Light CC 0Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Floral pattern 7 (colour 4) #2288
Green CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background #387
Noise CC 0Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background
Source GDJ
Xv #314
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Floral design 86 #1885
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Type #276
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Light Toast #759
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
White Texture #131
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Light Brown Wallpaper With Vertical Stripes #905
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Wave Grind@2X #1133
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Kinda Jean@2X #1063
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Decorative divider 207 #2367
Dark CC 0Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Black Mamba #57
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Pine Bark #1276
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Sewn Stripes Pattern #964
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 320 #1830
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Tex2res3 #723
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Vichy #71
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Background pattern 297 #1902
Red CC 0Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
Hexellence #705
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Medic Packaging Foil #376
Light CC BY-SA 3.08 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Little Knobs@2X #311
Light CC BY-SA 3.0White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos