Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Floral background #1973
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Worn Dots #709
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Diagonal Noise #181
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Spotty Pink Background (Seamless) #1236
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 306 (colour 6) #1878
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background@2X #572
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 254 #2040
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Bright Squares #87
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Background pattern 245 (colour 3) #2190
Blue CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Mossy #1296
Stone CC 0ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Egg Shell #861
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Circular frame 25 #1712
Dark CC 0Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
GPlay@2X #736
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
White Brick Wall #593
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Background pattern 250 (colour) #2171
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Xv #314
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
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
Brushed Alum #67
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Checkered Light Emboss@2X #281
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
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
leaf seamless pattern #2262
Blue CC 0The image depicts a tiled seamless pattern.The tile represents four leaves aligned every 90 ° , which may look like a bird or a dragon .The original leaf design is from a Japanese old book.
Source Yamachem
Decorative divider 223 #2207
Dark CC 0Inspired by a design found in 'Konstantinápolyi emlékeim', Miklos Chriszto, 1893.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background #390
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ