Geometric pattern #2005
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
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Polaroid@2X #188
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Light Toast #759
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Floral design 87 #1886
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Subtle Striped Brown Background Pattern #940
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
"Beige Stone", Seamless Web Texture #1031
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Vertical Stripes, Background Pattern #935
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral background 21 #1785
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Knitted Sweater@2X #1098
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Dark Wall@2X #818
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Spiral pattern 3 #1934
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
White Sand@2X #20
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 239 #2217
Red CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless Pink Background Texture #1233
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background@2X #531
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
Green Background With Leaves #1331
Green CC BY-SA 3.0It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Strange Bullseyes #865
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Background pattern 260 #2094
Orange CC 0Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
Background pattern 240 #2209
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern 13 #1758
Dark CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern (colour) #2334
Fabric CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background@2X #808
Noise CC 0Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 185 #2588
Orange CC 0From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin