Micro Carbon@2X #8
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
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Pine Bark #1276
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Interlocking pattern 3 #2406
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
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
Floral background #1973
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Congruent Pentagon #1307
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
Gray Lines@2X #914
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background@2X #808
Noise CC 0Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5@2X #788
Dark CC 0Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Blue on White Background Pattern #993
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
Blue CC 0The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Beige Paper #83
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Dark Brown Wood Pattern #884
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral pattern 6 (colour 6) #2455
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 302 (colour 2) #1887
Green CC 0Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
Flourish 2 #2299
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 243 #2082
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Flourish 1 #2300
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Vichy@2X #72
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Seamless Background Texture (Light Pink) #1231
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0Feel free to use this seamless background texture as a background on a web site. It's colored in a light pink color and is seamlessly tile-able.
Source V. Hartikainen
Iron Grip #587
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Configurable Graph Paper@2X #816
Stripes CC 0Pass parameters to the URL or edit the source code variables to configure the graph paper for the division desired.
Source JayNick
Subtle White Mini Waves #1322
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
White Wall 3 #1148
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
White Paperboard #374
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos