Wood Background Pattern #882
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.

Source V. Hartikainen

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Background pattern 214 (colour 2) #2376
 Red  CC 0

A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.

Source Firkin

Hexagonal pattern #2379
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
 Dark  CC 0

Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Background pattern 251 (colour 3) #2165
 Blue  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale #378
 Dark  CC 0

Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale

Source GDJ

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

Groovepaper@2X #578
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.

Source Isaac

Gray Sand #17
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.

Source Atle Mo