Background pattern 309 (colour 3) #1864
Red CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 245 (colour 4) #2189
Yellow CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Retro Intro@2X #894
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background #555
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Textured Paper #1130
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
Dark Dot #647
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture@2X #1222
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
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
Snow #627
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black #402
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
blue glass design #2545
Blue CC 0The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem
Tree and bird pattern #1983
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Square ornament 38 #2147
Dark CC 0From 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
Subtle Grunge@2X #1041
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Background pattern 8 (colour) #211
Noise CC 0Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Light & Boards #1297
Wood CC 0ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Colourful background #2007
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Overlapping planks 3 #2573
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Parquet flooring pattern (colour 3) #2425
Pink CC 0A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Lined Paper #1034
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2@2X #785
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Tessellation 16 (colour 6) #2210
Colorful CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Light Gray Paper With Horizontal Lines #904
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen