Subtle Orange Emboss #97
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
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"Wide Stripe Wallpaper", Seamless Pattern #970
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Stripes #39
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Background pattern 306 (colour 6) #1878
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 194 #2478
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
"Gold Buttons", Pale Yellow BG Pattern #1215
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Wavy background #2021
Pink CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background #471
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
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
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background@2X #500
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Geometric pattern 7 #1929
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Blizzard #663
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Noisy Net@2X #977
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background@2X #544
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Floral pattern 6 (colour 5) #2457
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 #2461
Fabric CC 0A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
GPlay@2X #736
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
crissXcross #111
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
fawn spot pattern #2472
Dark CC 0The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
Fabric pattern 3 #2387
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
“Transparent” Background Pattern #493
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Background pattern 257 #2137
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Decorative divider #1943
Dark CC 0Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
White Sand@2X #20
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