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
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White Sand@2X #20
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 302 #1894
Red CC 0The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Light Gray@2X #1204
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cover Cells Book #1277
Red CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover cells book texture, 4k, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Dark Metallic Background Pattern #1088
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Yellow Wood Planks Background #876
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
White Texture@2X #132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Dark Tire@2X #704
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Background pattern black #2028
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Old Mathematics #43
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Background Patterns - Slate #244
Fabric CC 0If you want png files of thisu can download them here :
Source Viscious-Speed
Wood Stripe Pattern #888
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 282 #1857
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 201 #2421
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Tex2res1 #721
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
“Transparent” Background Pattern #493
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background #557
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ