emixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kyotime
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin