Grunge Wall #81
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
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Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background@2X #804
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background@2X #783
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
White Wall 3@2X #1149
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Zodiac sign symbol background #1927
Red CC 0Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Tileable Wood #655
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Grunge Wall #81
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Type #276
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 247 #2077
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 226 #2178
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Page ornament #1991
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 1 #220
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Light Gray@2X #1204
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Subtle Carbon@2X #950
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
Red CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Patterned metal plate 7 #2556
Metal CC 0From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Grid Paper Background (Blue Gray) #1162
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 224 (colour 2) #2341
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Cross frame #1718
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin
Rough Diagonal@2X #692
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Decorative divider 220 #2230
Dark CC 0Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 29 #200
Dark CC 0Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern 5 #1854
Dark CC 0Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by susanlu4esm
Source Firkin
Background pattern 263 #2073
Pink CC 0Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 #409
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
White Carbon Fiber #823
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
White Leather #639
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo