Subtle Website Background #1022
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a subtle marble-like background for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Fabric pattern 3 (colour 5) #2383
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
Background pattern 201 (colour) #2497
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
Polonez Pattern@2X #335
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Floral pattern 7 (colour 5) #2287
Green CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Overlapping planks 6 #2570
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 5) #2323
Blue CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 1 #220
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Txture #757
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Corrugation #765
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse #197
Dark CC 0Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
Triangles pattern #2408
Brown CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
White Wave@2X #682
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Wave Grind #1132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
"Colorful Stripes", Diagonally Striped Background #903
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Felt #300
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Padded #61
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Gun Metal@2X #361
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Background pattern 309 (colour 2) #1865
Blue CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Cross Scratches #625
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
Vaio #675
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
Nistri@2X #774
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Floral design 97 #1778
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Floral tile 3 #1791
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin