P4@2X #1112
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
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Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background@2X #781
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 314 #1839
Yellow CC 0The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Leafy design 18 (colour) #1786
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Gray Lines #913
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 229 #2151
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
45-Degree Fabric@2X #2
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Zodiac pattern #2407
Colorful 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
Background pattern 213 (colour) #2411
Colorful 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. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
Red Gemstone Tiles #1223
Red CC BY-SA 3.0This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Subtle Dark Vertical@2X #608
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Floral design 97 #1778
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black #408
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Floral design #1985
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Project Papper@2X #120
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Overlapping planks 4 #2572
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Dark Sharp Edges #1320
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
Green CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Mosaic tile #2481
Brown CC 0From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Wood Pattern #370
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Reticular Tissue@2X #764
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Light Note Paper #942
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Wavy background #2019
Colorful CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight