Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #1218
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0A 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
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Frozen Surface With Diagonal Stripes #912
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 7 #227
Noise CC 0Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
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
Dark Brown Leather Texture, Seamless Tile #1092
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0The texture of this background image has some similarities with leather, and it's colored in a dark brown color. So, if you are looking for a dark brown background image for your website, this may be an option for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 320 (colour 2) #1829
Dark CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Subtle Freckles@2X #90
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Chain background #2063
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern #2335
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Hoffman #1152
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
White Texture@2X #132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Argyle@2X #644
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson