White Plaster #368
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.

Source Phil Maurer

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"Reptile Skin", Seamless Texture #1119
 Leather  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #1218
 Yellow  CC BY-SA 3.0

A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

White Texture@2X #132
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.

Source Dmitry

Retina Dust@2X #916
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

First 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

Spiral pattern 3 #1934
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.

Source Firkin

Retro Circles Background 4 No Black #422
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 4 No Black

Source GDJ

Project Papper #119
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?

Source Rafael Almeida

Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black #404
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black

Source GDJ

Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background #272
 Light  CC 0

Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Polaroid@2X #188
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.

Source Daniel Beaton

texture hearts pattern #242
 Noise  CC 0

A red heart background texture.

Source GDJ

Subtle Orange Emboss #97
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.

Source Adam Anlauf

Background pattern 225 #2327
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 264 #2071
 Orange  CC 0

The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background #549
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background

Source GDJ

Pool Table@2X #176
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.

Source Caveman

Background pattern 66 #195
 Wall  CC 0

A background pattern drawn in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Floral background 20 #1813
 Red  CC 0

Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885

Source Firkin

Retro Squares Background@2X #415
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Squares Background

Source GDJ

Bird pattern (colour 2) #2292
 Green  CC 0

Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin