Pinstripe #35
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray pattern with a thin pinstripe.

Source Brandon

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Wallpaper Tile 13 #240
 Light  CC 0

An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.

Source TikiGiki

Wood@2X #50
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks. https://cloaks.deviantart.com

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 308 (colour 6) #1867
 Pink  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Old Mathematics@2X #44
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.

Source Josh Green

Fancy Deboss #177
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.

Source Daniel Beaton

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background #541
 Diamond  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Dotnoise Light Grey@2X #309
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!

Source Nikolalek

Green Dust & Scratches #107
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.

Source Atle Mo

Rough Cloth #312
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.

Source Bartosz Kaszubowski

Random Binary Background #274
 Light  CC 0

Random Binary Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
 Blue  CC 0

The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Glossy Diagonal Stripes, Background Pattern #908
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.

Source V. Hartikainen