Textured Paper@2X #1131
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
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Fabric Pattern with Stitch Holes #1163
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Page ornament 54 #2059
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Triangles #127
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Dark Tire@2X #704
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Background pattern 246 (colour 3) #2184
Green CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Page ornament 21 #2361
Dark CC 0From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Sewn Stripes Pattern #964
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Merely Cubed@2X #590
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
Floral background 2 #2471
Yellow CC 0Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 (colour 2) #2460
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Floral design 95 #1790
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Grey Washed Wall@2X #1129
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Background pattern 332 #1742
Noise CC 0The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 #2461
Fabric CC 0A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
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
Light Brown Wallpaper With Vertical Stripes #905
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Stitched Leather Background #996
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Pink Background Pattern #1232
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Diamond pattern (colour 3) #2283
Green CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Diamond pattern #2285
Brown CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Brushed Alum@2X #68
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Office #957
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Black Mamba@2X #58
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Pattern cleanup 4 #157
Noise CC 0An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH