Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #933
Stripes 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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Patterned Pale Orange Background #1314
Orange CC BY-SA 3.0You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Transparent Square Tiles #298
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Decorative divider 228 #2154
Dark CC 0Remixed from 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
Back Pattern #945
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
Wall #1245
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black@2X #446
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Soft Pad #613
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Old Mathematics #43
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Tire #703
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Norwegian Rose #857
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background #573
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 226 #2178
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Ravenna #354
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
"Cork Board", Seamless Background For Websites #875
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
Natural Paper@2X #834
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 #465
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Background pattern 238 (colour 3) #2227
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ed62's pattern remixed #1728
Dark CC 0The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Flowery pattern 4 #2328
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black@2X #786
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Floral divider 7 #1747
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin