White Linen #839
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
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Background pattern 201 (colour 3) #2493
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
Carbon Fiber v2 #105
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
Circular frame 25 #1712
Dark CC 0Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
Inspiration Geometry #1175
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Background pattern 225 #2327
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Floral design 100 (version 2) #1773
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Wooden Background For Websites #873
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Brown Timber Wall Texture #874
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 315 (colour 5) #1841
Yellow CC 0The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Background pattern 269 #2062
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Well #1261
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Glass block pattern #2477
Brown CC 0Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Dark Embroidery #1340
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Brilliant #753
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Binding Light #1136
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black@2X #460
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Through Pixel Dream #1228
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0A yellow tiled background... Blurriness, bokeh effect and rectangles pattern in one mix.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Tiny Grid #891
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 224 (colour 2) #2341
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Black Wall #1240
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background #549
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
Type@2X #277
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Polonez Pattern #334
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background #447
Noise CC 0Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Colourful background #2007
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin