Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
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Background pattern 9 (colour) #214
Noise CC 0Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Background pattern 308 (colour 4) #1868
Green CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Carbon Fiber v2@2X #106
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
Straws #972
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background #405
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black@2X #464
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Diagonal Waves #1006
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Background pattern 112 #263
Fabric CC 0A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 #271
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Flourish pattern (colour) #1737
Yellow CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Glossy Groove Stripe Pattern (Pale Orange) #967
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral design 88 #1876
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Rainbow flag pattern #1873
Colorful CC 0The tile can be had by using shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape
Source Firkin
Parquet flooring pattern (colour 2) #2426
Green CC 0A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 257 #2137
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Disks pattern #1890
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by DavidZydd
Source Firkin
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black@2X #456
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Indian Red Web Background #1172
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral background #1980
Brown CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin