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Brushed Alum Dark #65
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.

Source Tim Ward

Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse #197
 Dark  CC 0

Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.

Source GDJ

Triangular Psychosis 4 #236
 Noise  CC 0

A colorful triangular background, variation 4.

Source GDJ

Background pattern 225 #2327
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 230 #2150
 Dark  CC 0

From 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

Colourful background #2010
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Elegant Grid #316
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.

Source GraphicsWall

Background pattern 9 (B&W) #212
 Dark  CC 0

Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Background pattern 267 #2067
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i

Source Firkin

Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

Fabric pattern #2402
 Fabric  CC 0

Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 214 (colour 4) #2373
 Yellow  CC 0

A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.

Source Firkin

Xv #314
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.

Source Lasma

Frozen Surface With Diagonal Stripes #912
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.

Source V. Hartikainen