Light Aluminum #304
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.

Source Atle Mo

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Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

Black Linen@2X #64
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

"Dark Metal Plate", Web Background #1084
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.

Source V. Hartikainen

shell pattern #2533
 Brown  CC 0

The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.

Source Yamachem

Pattern cleanup 4 #157
 Noise  CC 0

An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.

Source Lazur URH

Light Orange Brown Wallpaper #911
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Background pattern 328 (colour 3) #1799
 Noise  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 239 #2218
 Dark  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Vintage pattern #1961
 Grid  CC 0

Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

Triangles #127
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.

Source Ivan Ginev

Checkered Light Emboss@2X #281
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker

Background pattern 6 #225
 Noise  CC 0

Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.

Source Firkin