One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Element of beach pattern with background.
Source Rones
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
First 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
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Seamless Pattern III With Background
Source GDJ
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin