Paven@2X #297
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
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Diagonales Decalées #1018
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
Felt #300
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Leafy pattern 4 #1915
Green CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 306 (colour 2) #1881
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
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
Background pattern 294 #1921
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Climpek@2X #776
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Subtle Carbon #949
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Background pattern 251 (colour 3) #2165
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ecorative divider 190 #2516
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Dark Denim@2X #373
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Pyramid@2X #896
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Decorative divider 185 #2588
Orange CC 0From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Light Mesh@2X #708
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
"Reptile Skin", Seamless Texture #1119
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The Black Mamba #769
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Floral background #1973
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Clean gray paper@2X #860
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Background pattern 246 #2186
Red CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Black Leather Texture (Seamless) #1118
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
Billie Holiday@2X #1003
Light CC BY-SA 3.0No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman