White Texture #131
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Source Dmitry

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blue wave-seigaiha #2535
 Blue  CC 0

The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.

Source Yamachem

Rocky Wall #41
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.

Source Projecteightyfive

Background pattern 112 #263
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.

Source Firkin

MBossed@2X #194
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.

Source Alex Parker

Zodiac sign symbol background #1927
 Red  CC 0

Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern

Source Firkin

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background #541
 Diamond  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Circles@2X #186
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.

Source Blunia

Colourful background #2009
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Element of beach pattern with background #254
 Noise  CC 0

Element of beach pattern with background.

Source Rones

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 6 #2444
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

Foggy Birds #579
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?

Source Pete Fecteau

Background pattern 339 (colour) #1708
 Yellow  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Pinstripe@2X #36
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray pattern with a thin pinstripe.

Source Brandon

Glossy Diagonal Stripes, Background Pattern #908
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.

Source V. Hartikainen