Textured Paper Background (Vanilla Yellow) #1219
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
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Bird pattern #2293
Pink CC 0Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 246 #2078
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Page ornament 41 #2092
Dark CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Black Linen 2 #103
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
Noisy #45
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Background pattern 10 #216
Noise CC 0A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Rebel@2X #830
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
"Beige Stone", Seamless Web Texture #1031
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
45-Degree Fabric@2X #2
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 252 (colour) #2161
Colorful CC 0Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 9 #2548
Grid CC 0A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 19 (black) #203
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Rough bark #2563
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture@2X #1222
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cells #1285
Paper CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Pyramid #895
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Translucent Fibres #943
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Diagonal Noise #181
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background #569
Light CC 0Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Background pattern 246 (colour 3) #2184
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Diamond pattern (colour 4) #2282
Blue CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Exclusive Paper@2X #24
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo