Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
Cardboard CC BY-SA 3.0A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Background pattern 336 #1721
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 245 (colour 5) #2188
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 5) #2323
Blue CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Black Metallic Pattern #1090
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 207 #2466
Yellow CC 0A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Axiom Pattern@2X #331
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
Patterned metal plate 7 #2556
Metal CC 0From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
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
Tweed@2X #1151
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Texturetastic Gray@2X #616
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
Red 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
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 5) #2035
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Subtle Grunge@2X #1041
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Hexellence #705
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Background pattern 41 #262
Fabric CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Flourish pattern #1736
Dark CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin