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Cloth Alike@2X #1094
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Floral background 7 #2225
Yellow CC 0A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
Dark Tire #703
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Seamless Pink Background Texture #1233
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
WaveCut@2X #76
Light CC BY-SA 3.0If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 4) #2384
Fabric CC 0Alternative 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
Black Thread #599
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Dark Metallic Background Pattern #1088
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 188 #2521
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Rough Diagonal #691
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Cross pattern (negative) #2332
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider #2001
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
Seamless Canvas (Pale Brown) #1165
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 308 (colour 2) #1871
Green CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
tortoise in tortoiseshell #2537
Grid CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem
Green Background Pattern with Warped Vertical Stripes #1328
Green CC BY-SA 3.0Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 201 (colour 3) #2493
Grid CC 0A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Old Mathematics@2X #44
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Gloomy Stripes #994
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Textured Paper Background (Vanilla Yellow) #1219
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Rough Cloth@2X #313
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen