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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Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale #814
Dark CC 0Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
Dark Brown Timber Wall Texture #874
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
Rebel@2X #830
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Noisy Net #976
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Square ornament 31 #2434
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 #409
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Light Honeycomb #59
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Red Wood #1273
Wood CC 0Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Diagonal Striped Brick@2X #680
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
"Green Rhombuses", Seamless Background Pattern #1336
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A free green background pattern with a pattern of rhombuses on a seamless texture. Feel free to use it as a tiled background image on your web site.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background@2X #800
Light CC 0Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Vintage pattern #1959
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Mugs pattern #2479
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
Paper 2 #21
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
White Wall@2X #772
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 252 (colour 4) #2159
Light CC 0Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Stucco@2X #295
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Wavy background #2013
Pink CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Wooden planks 2 #2569
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 9 #2043
Dark CC 0The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
Source Firkin
Use Your Illusion #917
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Old Mathematics #43
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Background pattern 245 (colour 4) #2189
Yellow CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin