Low Contrast Linen@2X #864
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
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Tessellation 10 #2547
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
White Grunge Background #1124
Grunge CC BY-SA 3.0This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Crisp Paper Ruffles #841
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Tactile Noise #5
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Subtle Dots #921
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Strange Bullseyes@2X #866
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Strawberry seamless pattern #208
Noise CC 0This is the remix of "Strawberry Pattern Background" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks. I realigned strawberries so as to get seamless and changed the BG color.
Source Yamachem
Lichen #1293
Stone CC 0Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Decorative divider 246 #2078
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Exclusive Paper #23
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 235 (colour 4) #2252
Green CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 230 #2150
Dark CC 0From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 339 #1709
Dark CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 250 (colour 3) #2169
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
"Gold Buttons", Pale Yellow BG Pattern #1215
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Epithalamion tailpiece #2527
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Floral design 70 #2520
Dark CC 0Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
Project Papper #119
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Candy cane pattern #1853
Noise CC 0Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin