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
More Textures
Woody texture-seamless pattern 03 #2543
Wood CC 0This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
Natural Paper #833
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Tree and bird pattern #1982
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Cork Panel Background Texture #869
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light Blue Background Pattern #1161
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0This light blue background pattern is quite pleasing to the eye, it consists of a tiny rough grid pattern, which is seamless by design. That's it, if you like the color, you can use this seamless pattern in a web design without making any further modifications to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Black Linen 2 #103
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
White Plaster #368
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Background pattern 267 #2067
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 7 (colour 4) #2288
Green CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Redox 02 #851
Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Decorative divider 231 #2149
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
Decorative divider 272 (colour) #1926
Yellow CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Heart and rose pattern #2419
Pink CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Waves decorative divider #1908
Blue CC 0Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Cincinnati tablet 2 #2146
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
Wood #1271
Wood CC 0Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Tessellation 10 (variant 1) #2546
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Grey Washed Wall #1128
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Checkered Light Emboss #280
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Snow@2X #628
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
"Gray Stripes", Background Pattern #941
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen