Wood Background Pattern #882
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A 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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Tessellation 10 (variant 1) #2546
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Mooning #1140
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Wavy background #2017
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Background pattern 272 #2057
Brown CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 6 #2444
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture@2X #1222
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Rebel@2X #830
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Otis Redding #1004
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Decorative divider 187 #2522
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Blu Stripes@2X #618
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
White carbon #11
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Triangular ornament 32 #2435
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Wood@2X #50
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks. https://cloaks.deviantart.com
Source Atle Mo
Paper@2X #658
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
Background pattern 8 (colour) #211
Noise CC 0Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Wavy background #2019
Colorful CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Candyhole #356
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Iron Grip@2X #588
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Wall #4 Light #779
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Bright Squares #87
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Background pattern 223 (colour 6) #2348
Yellow CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 240 #2086
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Triangles #127
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Rocky Wall@2X #42
Light CC BY-SA 3.0High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Subtle Striped Brown Background Pattern #940
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cincinnati tablet 2 #2146
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin