Feathered #1324
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
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Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background@2X #574
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Floral background #1975
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 2) #2395
Fabric CC 0Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black@2X #460
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Repeating Wood Straw Background #887
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Textured Paper Background (Vanilla Yellow) #1219
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 112 #263
Fabric CC 0A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Navy #984
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
Diamond pattern 2 (colour 6) #2261
Colorful CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Bark #1379
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Seamless Cork Board Background #881
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 245 (colour 5) #2188
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Flower Trail #741
Noise CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Background pattern green #1947
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
Background pattern 323 (colour 4) #1809
Green CC 0Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
Seamless Green Tile Background #1326
Green CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 257 #2137
Dark CC 0Remixed 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