White carbon #11
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
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Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Brushed Alum Dark #65
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture #1221
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background #412
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Gold Wall & Black #1251
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Dark Textile Background #1169
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Embossed Paper #731
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Japanese family crest called chidori 02 #2440
Brown CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern of a Japanese family crest called "chidori" in Japanese .A chidori in Japanese means a plover in English.
Source Yamachem
Iron Grip@2X #588
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Decorative divider 229 #2151
Dark CC 0From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern (colour 4) #2399
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not 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
Layered wood #2566
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Diamond pattern (colour 8) #2273
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 3) #2325
Pink CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Back Pattern #945
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background@2X #789
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Broken Noise@2X #365
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Floral background #1976
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Wave Grind@2X #1133
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Seamless Pink Background Texture #1233
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen