SubtleNet #855
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
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Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background #573
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Old Moon #1201
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Subtle Carbon@2X #950
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Decorative divider #1943
Dark CC 0Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
Confectionary #1342
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Retina Dust@2X #916
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
"Dark Metal Plate", Web Background #1084
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
wire-mesh fence seamless pattern #2492
Grid CC 0The image a seamless pattern of a wire-mesh fence.I want you to use this pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 (colour 6) #2455
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Sine wave background 2 #1734
Dark CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Glossy Groove Stripe Pattern (Pale Orange) #967
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 241 #2084
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Brown Metallic Grid Pattern #1086
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stitched Wool #843
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Dark Stitched Leather Background #1121
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 251 (colour 3) #2165
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
HIXS Evolution@2X #610
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Floral pattern 9 #2043
Dark CC 0The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
Source Firkin
Debut Dark@2X #1015
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Rough Concrete Surface #1195
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0This one resembles a black concrete wall when is tiled. It should look great, at least with dark website themes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 309 (colour 3) #1864
Red CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Crow and bird pattern #1965
Dark CC 0CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight