Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen