A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This light yellow background pattern consists of an irregular pattern of spots. Here's a light background pattern with yellowish tint.
Source V. Hartikainen
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo