Tileable Wood@2X #656
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
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Skin Side Up #847
Light CC BY-SA 3.0White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Background pattern 201 #2501
Grid CC 0A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background@2X #492
Noise CC 0Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 271 #2058
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Background pattern green #1947
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Subtle Grunge@2X #1041
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Background pattern 235 (colour 6) #2250
Red CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark Stripes #39
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Skeletal Weave #931
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Blizzard@2X #664
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Leafy pattern 10 #1775
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 4) #2324
Green CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
60º lines@2X #26
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 10 #521
Noise CC 0Abstract Tiled Background Extended 10
Source GDJ
Background pattern 200 variant #2505
Pink CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Church@2X #634
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Wall #1246
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Dark Dot@2X #648
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 320 #1830
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Vintage pattern #2296
Brown CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin