Retina Dust #915
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First 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
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Clean gray paper #859
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Always Grey #53
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Checkered Pattern@2X #323
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Soft Pad@2X #614
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black #459
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Noisy@2X #46
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Background pattern 238 (colour 3) #2227
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Orange-red Pattern #995
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Overlapping planks 3 #2573
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Blizzard #663
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Spirals pattern #1994
Colorful CC 0Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Background pattern Pink #1938
Pink CC 0Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Hexellence #705
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Gray Striped Fabric Pattern #1170
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new gray "fabric" pattern. Use it as backgrounds for websites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stamped Dots On Metal #1083
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 6 #225
Noise CC 0Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background@2X #492
Noise CC 0Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 21 #205
Light CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 234 #2093
Dark CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 262 #2075
Dark CC 0Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
"Black Metal Grid", Seamless Background Pattern #1080
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Black Linen 2@2X #104
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
White Plaster@2X #369
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer