"Gold Buttons", Pale Yellow BG Pattern #1215
 Yellow  CC BY-SA 3.0

This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!

Source V. Hartikainen

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Broken Noise #364
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.

Source Vincent Klaiber

Background pattern 117@2X #525
 Noise  CC 0

A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.

Source Firkin

Merely Cubed@2X #590
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.

Source Etienne Rallion

Sine wave background #1735
 Dark  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Hexagonal pattern (colour) #2378
 Yellow  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
 Cardboard  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.

Source V. Hartikainen

Background pattern 254 (colour) #2143
 Colorful  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
 Dark  CC 0

Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Background2 #259
 Wall  CC 0

rug texture background

Source Jilllio

Graphene pattern 1 #2235
 Dark  CC 0

Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 306 (colour 5) #1879
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Subtle Orange Emboss@2X #98
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.

Source Adam Anlauf