Leather 1@2X #14
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A leather pattern with a hint of yellow.

Source Atle Mo

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Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #933
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Soft Circle Scales #113
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Japanese looking fish scale pattern.

Source Ian Soper

Colourful background #2008
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Groovepaper@2X #578
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.

Source Isaac

Background2 #259
 Wall  CC 0

rug texture background

Source Jilllio

Pattern cleanup filtered 2 #152
 Noise  CC 0

Cleanup with gradients and filtering.

Source Lazur URH

Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black@2X #442
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black

Source GDJ

Ravenna@2X #355
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.

Source Sentel

Background pattern green #1944
 Green  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Darth Stripe #99
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Diagonal lines with a lot of texture to them.

Source Ashton

Background pattern 201 (colour) #2497
 Grid  CC 0

A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 #461
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4

Source GDJ

Background pattern 309 (colour 2) #1865
 Blue  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin