Mooning #1140
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
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Background pattern 197 (variant 2) #2512
Green CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Ravenna@2X #355
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Floral design #1984
Green CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Triangular ornament 32 #2435
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Type #276
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Straws@2X #973
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Carbon Fiber@2X #4
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Noisy@2X #46
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
White Wall 2 #1020
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Decorative divider 291 #1793
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Polonez Pattern@2X #335
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Seamless Wood Pattern #889
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light Orange Brown Wallpaper #911
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A 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
Glass block pattern #2477
Brown CC 0Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Black Scales@2X #192
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Decorative divider 200 #2420
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin