Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Watercolor Vintage style CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
Have you wondered about how it feels to be buried alive? Here is the pattern for it.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo