Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
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
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen