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Soft Wallpaper #95
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.

Source Atle Mo

Batthern #324
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.

Source Factorio.us Collective

Background pattern 221 #2347
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background #413
 Light  CC 0

Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Concrete Wall 2@2X #80
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.

Source Atle Mo

Vintage pattern 2 #2295
 Yellow  CC 0

Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Squares #302
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?

Source Jaromír Kavan

Background pattern 277 (colour) #2031
 Orange  CC 0

A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black #451
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black

Source GDJ

Type@2X #277
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 8 (black) #209
 Dark  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 272 (colour 3) #2055
 Red  CC 0

A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Background 3@2X #484
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 3

Source GDJ

Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
 Cardboard  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.

Source V. Hartikainen

Pattern cleanup filtered 2 #152
 Noise  CC 0

Cleanup with gradients and filtering.

Source Lazur URH

Black Scales@2X #192
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.

Source Alex Parker

Floral design 91 #1814
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.

Source Firkin