Vintage pattern #1961
 Grid  CC 0

Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

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Cubes@2X #134
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.

Source Sander Ottens

Background pattern black #2026
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Diamond pattern (colour 9) #2269
 Fabric  CC 0

From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 226 (colour 2) #2320
 Green  CC 0

A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Pattern cleanup 4 #157
 Noise  CC 0

An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.

Source Lazur URH

Spotted Light Yellow BG Pattern #1216
 Yellow  CC BY-SA 3.0

This light yellow background pattern consists of an irregular pattern of spots. Here's a light background pattern with yellowish tint.

Source V. Hartikainen

Retro Circles Background 4@2X #421
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 4

Source GDJ

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black #410
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black

Source GDJ

Background pattern 273 #2042
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.

Source Firkin

Green Fibers@2X #92
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.

Source Matteo Di Capua

Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
 Pink  CC 0

A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Art Nouveau ornament-seamless pattern #2550
 Brown  CC 0

This is the remix of an OCAL clipart called "Art Nouveau ornament" uploaded by "microcosme".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of an Art Nouveau ornament.

Source Yamachem

Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This 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