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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Lego background #2428
Colorful CC 0Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Noise@2X #182
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background #405
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Rebel #829
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background@2X #540
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Dark Denim #372
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Background pattern 252 #2162
Dark 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
Triangular #1156
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
Redox 01 #849
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
crissXcross@2X #112
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Decorative divider 244 #2080
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
P2 #1107
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Decorative divider 233 #2145
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
Mooning@2X #1141
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Colourful background #2011
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Background pattern 309 (colour 4) #1863
Green CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Weather decorative divider #1905
Dark CC 0Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black #410
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Triangular ornament 32 #2435
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Rough Fabric Pattern (Dark Brown) #1166
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background@2X #531
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 291 #1931
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 (colour 4) #2458
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 6) #2391
Fabric CC 0Not 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