Subtle Freckles@2X #90
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
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Floral background 10 (colour 2) #2045
Pink CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
White Sand #19
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Faded Diagonal Stripes #1001
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Fancy Deboss #177
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Mooning@2X #1141
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Gun Metal #360
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Concrete Wall 3@2X #94
Light CC BY-SA 3.0All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Small Crosses@2X #116
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Scribble Light #739
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
Lined Paper@2X #363
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Checkered Pattern #322
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Graphy #350
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Floral pattern 13 #1756
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Grey Washed Wall@2X #1129
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Background pattern 10 #216
Noise CC 0A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Random Grey Variations #69
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Black Linen@2X #64
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Merely Cubed #589
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
Dark & Gray #1299
Stone CC 0ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Flying swan pattern #1979
Blue CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin