Red Gemstone Tiles #1223
Red CC BY-SA 3.0This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
More Textures
Decorative divider 187 #2522
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Retro Intro #893
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Tileable Off-white Background #1191
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
"Seamless Bark", Website Background. #879
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stripy checkerboard pattern 2 #1767
Dark CC 0Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Gun Metal@2X #361
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Corrugation #765
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
White Wave@2X #682
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 #271
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Dark Wall #817
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Dark Tire@2X #704
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
samekomon-01 #2270
Yellow CC 0The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-yellow.
Source Yamachem
White carbon #11
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Felt@2X #301
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 200 #2506
Pink CC 0Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Grass #1278
Green CC 0Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background pattern 272 (colour 2) #2056
Pink CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Grilled Noise@2X #582
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Noise Lines@2X #898
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Brushed Alum@2X #68
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward