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Lined Paper #362
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.

Source Are Sundnes

Dark Mosaic@2X #122
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.

Source John Burks

Background pattern 15 #201
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Dark Steel Grid Background Pattern #1081
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!

Source V. Hartikainen

Background pattern 268 #2066
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i

Source Firkin

Patchwork Quilt Pattern Background #228
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Seamless Core Pattern 5 #169
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless Core Pattern 5

Source GDJ

Background pattern 252 (colour 2) #2156
 Brown  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background #391
 Light  CC 0

Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern brown #1945
 Brown  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 105 #563
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102

Source Firkin

Background pattern 251 (colour 5) #2163
 Red  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Pool Table #175
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.

Source Caveman

Background pattern 9 (greyscale) #213
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Background pattern 236 #2249
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Seamless Wood Pattern #889
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.

Source V. Hartikainen