Subtle Dark Vertical #607
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
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Stripey ball pattern #1997
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black@2X #792
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Shine Caro #713
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Background pattern 227 (colour 2) #2313
Blue CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Retina Dust #915
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Textured Grid Paper #1316
Orange CC BY-SA 3.0A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Retina Wood #923
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Grilled Noise@2X #582
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Decking #2585
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Bright Squares@2X #88
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Tweed #1150
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
Grid #974
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Background pattern 201 #2501
Grid CC 0A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Faded Blue Stripe Pattern #939
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
Green CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 16 (colour 2) #2214
Colorful CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Square ornament 41 #2085
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Floral background #1981
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 249 #2179
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 221 (colour) #2346
Yellow CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 314 (colour 2) #1838
Green CC 0The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Abstract Paper-Like Background With Colorful Stains #1226
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Brick #1376
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett