Wood #49
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
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Seamless Cardboard Texture #1212
Cardboard CC BY-SA 3.0A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Elegant Grid@2X #317
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
Background pattern black and white #2030
Dark CC 0A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Textured Stripes@2X #868
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 213 #2336
Dark CC 0Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 248 #2181
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Fruit pattern 4 #2453
Pink CC 0A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Black Metallic Pattern #1090
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tessellation 11 (variant 3) #2536
Grid CC 0The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
45-Degree Fabric #1
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 320 #1830
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Black Mamba #57
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Leafy pattern 8 #1806
Dark CC 0Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 #401
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 3) #2385
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Carbon Fiber v2@2X #106
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
"Honeycomb", Orange Background Pattern #1313
Orange CC BY-SA 3.0The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Gold Wall & Black #1251
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background pattern 269 #2062
Dark 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
Simple Horizontal Light@2X #983
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Ice Age #637
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Old Wood Planks #877
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nami #575
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media