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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Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
Pink CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Grey Washed Wall@2X #1129
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Plywood Web Background #871
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Triangles@2X #128
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
White Bed Sheet #821
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 #401
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
Background pattern 315 (colour 6) #1840
Green CC 0The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
"Colorful Stripes", Diagonally Striped Background #903
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Blue Gray Wallpaper Texture #901
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 1 #220
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Absurdity@2X #826
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Shattered #951
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Wall #1243
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background pattern 255 (colour) #2141
Brown CC 0Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Large Leather@2X #650
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
flower seamless pattern-remix #2445
Fabric CC 0This is a remix of "flower seamless pattern".I rotated the original image by 90 degrees.This is a seamless pattern of flowers.These horizontal wavy lines are one of Edo patterns which is called "tatewaku or tachiwaku or 立湧" that represents uprising steam or vapor.
Source Yamachem
Wood Pattern@2X #371
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
Indian Red Web Background #1172
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bright Multicolored Floral Background@2X #560
Noise CC 0Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 235 #2091
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Background pattern 238 #2229
Red CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin