Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee