Escheresque Dark@2X #1065
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
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Little Triangles@2X #688
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Swirl@2X #948
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black #467
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Wet Paper Background (Pale Yellow) #1224
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background@2X #572
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Wood Pattern #370
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 328 (colour 6) #1796
Red CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Floral background #1975
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 222 #2208
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark & Gray #1299
Stone CC 0ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Gun Metal #360
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Background pattern 277 #2029
Dark CC 0A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Floral background 2 #380
Wall CC 0Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Grid Paper Background (Blue Gray) #1162
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Brushed Alum Dark #65
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
Floral background 11 #2044
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Wood Stripe Pattern #999
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tex2res4 #717
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Light Gray@2X #1204
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Tileable Wood@2X #656
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Craft Paper #1279
Yellow CC 0Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Smooth Wall #27
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo