White Texture@2X #132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
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Visual illusion #2586
Grid CC 0The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background patter 294 #1920
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Cuckoo Footprint #1321
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Vintage pattern #1959
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Wood Pattern #370
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 227 (colour 3) #2312
Pink CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Silver Scales #189
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Broken Noise@2X #365
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Wall #1249
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background pattern 231 #2301
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral divider 6 #1748
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background #547
Noise CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
Criss-cross pattern #1895
Dark CC 0A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
The Black Mamba #769
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Floral design 107 #1713
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Cartographer@2X #750
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Black Thread@2X #600
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Spiral pattern 3 #1934
Dark CC 0From 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