White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
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Background pattern black #2028
Dark CC 0Remixed 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
Colourful background 14 (colour 2) #2525
Colorful CC 0An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Green Fibers@2X #92
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Background pattern 303 #1888
Unknow CC 0Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 7 (colour 2) #2290
Blue CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Grey Sandbag #641
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background #499
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Rough Fabric Pattern (Dark Brown) #1166
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 224 (colour 5) #2338
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Leafy frame 32 #1714
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Crackled Wall #1272
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Redox 01@2X #850
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background@2X #533
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Dark Fish Skin #1048
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Background pattern 262 #2075
Dark CC 0Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
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
Grey Washed Wall #1128
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Warped Stripes on Paper #1073
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 5) #2035
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zig-zag pattern 3 #2416
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Notebook@2X #1179
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors