1000+ Background Patterns You can Use for Free
Seamless patterns are very useful as design elements, especially as background for websites. Adding a bright and interesting seamless pattern as background is a great way to lift the look of a website without much effort.
Here are more than 1000 seamless or background patterns that you can use for your web projects or even as background for making scrapbooks, invitation cards, etc.
For more Photoshop patterns, please also check our following posts:
300+ Background Patterns from Behance
50 Background Patterns I love at Colourlovers
Photoshop Pattern Sets: A Mega Huge Collection
On the other hand, if you are looking for Illustrator background patterns, check these posts instead:
10 Background Patterns in Illustrator Format: Plaid, Swirls, Retro
500+ Background Patterns in Vector Format for Web and Print Designs
BACKGROUND PATTERN 01- Ava7 Patterns
Source: Ava Patterns
Description: Hundreds of seamless patterns can be downloaded from this site. You can browse patterns by colors or by shape or by popularity. Free to use and download.
Number of Patterns: 100+
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 02- Seamless Polka Dot Pattern Swatches
Source: Pattern Cooler
Description: A set of seamless polka dot pattern swatches that you can use for any designs including invitations for baby showers, birthdays, package design, website design or any other project that you are working on.
Number of Patterns: 25
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 03- Floral Photoshop Patterns
Author: redheadstock
Description: A set of Photoshop patterns made up of various floral designs. Compatible with Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, GIMP 2.2.6+.
Number of Patterns: 17
Terms of Use: Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 04- Seamless Blue Patterns
Author: Sedma
Description: Those are in blue color. jpg images are included, so if you don’t have Photoshop CS2 you can use it anyway.
Number of Patterns: 115
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 05- Funky Retro Patterns
Author: cesstrelle
Description: A set of seamless tiling photoshop patterns created in PS7. The sizes of the patterns are scalable just in case you find them too big.
Number of patterns: 9
Terms of Use: Free for personal use only.
DOWNLOAD BACKGROUND PATTERN (No longer available)
BACKGROUND PATTERN 06- Seamless Patterns set
Author: forbidden-storm
Description:Free seamless patterns that you could use for website background.
Number of Patterns: 70
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 07- Mellow Mint Photoshop Patterns
Author: Camxso
Description: Seamless tiling patterns for use with Photoshop CS3.
Number of Patterns: 16
Terms of Use: Free for personal and commercial purposes.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 08- Retro Tartan
Author: aaskie
Description: A set of seamless patterns to give your web design or scrapbook a retro look. The zipped file includes a .pat file that you can use for Photoshop and an image pack for those who do not use Photoshop.
Number of patterns: 10 patterns
BACKGROUND PATTERN 09- Pink Patterns
Author: capriciousdream
Description: A set of seamless patterns saved as PNGs that you can use as backgrounds, fills or textures. There are 10 different colors and patterns including 3 jean patterns, 3 sponged patterns, 1 plaid, 1 swirl, 1wavy, 1 bubble in thi set. They are all 200×200 in size.
Number of Patterns: 10
Terms of Use: Free to use however you like.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 10- Retro-ish patterns
Author: EleanorMorgan
Description: This set includes seamless patterns featuring retro designs that you can use as background or texture in your designs.
Number of textures: 8
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 11- Indian fabric patterns
Author: melemel
Description: Seamless patterns featuring Indian fabric designs.
Number of Patterns: 4
Terms of Use: For personal use only
BACKGROUND PATTERN 12- Light-ish patterns
Author: Eleanor Morgan
Description: Another set of random patterns from Eleonor Morgan
Number of Patterns: 10
BACKGROUND PATTERN 13- Ice Patterns
Author: silver
Description: These patterns are seamless at 100dpi in a 1024×1024 tile.
Number of Patterns: 10
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 14- PS patterns
Author: Eleanor Morgan
Description: Seamless patterns that you can use in Photoshop or other program as background, texture or for filling any s[pace in your design.
Number of Patterns: 20
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 15- Summer-ish patterns
Author: EleanorMorgan
Description: Seamless bright-colored patterns that you can use tocreate a summer-themed website or greeting card.
Number of Patterns: 10
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 16- Retro Butter
Author: Camxso
Description: Seamless patterns featuring canvas, stained glass and a terra cotta mosaic
Number of Patterns: 11 seamless patterns
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 17- Pretty Plaids 001
Author: faded-ink
Description: This set features 100×100 seamless plaid patterns that you can tile as background for websites.
Number of Patterns: 30
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 18- Seamless Tiled Backgrounds
Author: piandaoist
Description: This set contains seamless patterns that you can use as tiled background for personal sites, blogs and social networking profiles, family sites, kid-friendly sites, and business sites (of a certain nature). Very clean and professional-looking, fun and cute. Plus, These backgrounds will work at any resolution.
Number of Patterns: 50
Terms of Use: Free
BACKGROUND PATTERN 19- Pattern set 2
Author: shoe-fly
Description: A set of seamless tilable patterns that you can use for Photoshop 7 and above
Number of Patterns: 12
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 20- Kaleidoscope Patterns
Author: allison1098
Description: A pack of seamless photoshop patterns that you can download for free.
Number of patterns: 7
Terms of Use: Free
DOWNLOAD BACKGROUND PATTERNS (no longer available)
BACKGROUND PATTERN 21- GypsyGarden” Seamless tile
Author: pixelsandicecream
Description: A pack of seamless patterns thatyou can use as background. The pack includes two sets of .pat files in different resolutions and a PNG files so you could also use these patterns outside of Photoshop.
Terms of Use: They’re free to download and use in both your personal and commercial projects
BACKGROUND PATTERN 22- Textured Stripes
Author: aeiryn
Description: A set of textured stripe patterns made in Photoshop CS2.
Number of Patterns: 6
Terms of Use: Free for both personal and commercial uses.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 23- Pattern Part 1
Author: crazy-alice
Description: A set of seamless patterns featuring floral and swirl designs that you can use as background. The zipped download file include .pat (for Photoshop patterns) and jpeg files (in case you wantto use it outside of Photoshop).
Number of Patterns: 9
Terms of Use: Free for personal use
BACKGROUND PATTERN 24- Patterns #23
Author: crazykira-resources
Description: This set of seamless and can be tiled patterns is intended for Photoshop CS+. In case you want to use it outside of Photoshop, an image pack is provided as well.
Number of Patterns: 33
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
BACKGROUND PATTERN 25- Green Patterns
Author: luthienblack
Description: This set of patterns is made in Photoshop CS2 & PSP 9. The zipped download pack contains .pat file and an image pack for other programs.
Number of Patterns: 6
Terms of Use: Free
Great selection of patterns here.
just on ava7 patterns you can find more than 1000 patterns so your title is wrong hehehe
good resources, thanks
Thanks for pointing that out jeeer!
I should change the title, then 
But…1,000 is still 500+. The title is correct, nonetheless!
very nice collection I love pink, blue and Indian fabric patterns
Thanks for the great resources!
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1000+ sounds better
cheers
Wow, a great find.
very nice collection!!!
Tnx for your post! If you want to do backlink, drop me a mail.
Great design! Thumb up for your hard work! Thanks!
To Your Success
Bryan Hee
You are a very smart person!
Interesting article, i have bookmarked your blog for future referrence
Wow! Thnx!
Awesome, thanks!
I was wondering if you allow advertising on this site – because I’d be interested in talking to you!
Excellent collection, everything you have on your website, thanks for sharing. I’m looking for swooches – any idea where I could find those?
@San Diego Web Designer -
Are you referring to swatches? If you do, then http://colourlovers.com would be a great site for swatches.
Thanks for sharing these background patterns. These will be useful for our next projects.
I have been searching hard for info on this, so thanks for the post, any ideas where I can get more information?
I can’t believe this – great site man/woman! I’ll definitely be adding this to my rss feed list. You do have a rss feed right?
@Peter Dwight -
I do have an RSS Feed. Here’s the link: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BestDesignOptions. Thanks.
Nice collections.
wonderful
thank a lot.
this is my looking for.
Very interesting… thanks.
For some reason, I have such a hard time with these darn captcha codes. So glad this place doesnt’ use it! You can hardly read them!
@Tim Matheew -
I am actually contemplating to get one. But akismet is working nice. although there are still spammers that can get through.
wow, very nice and incredible post.
I will try to do something like this. Thanks for sharing. I follow your blog for quite a long time. Thanks!
awesome stuff. These will definitely come in handy. You know how hard it is to make this stuff? ridiculous.. Thanks!!
Thank You. Very much.
I think butifu.
how do you get them to put words on it???
@Skye
You may open the file in an image editor like Photoshop and create a text layer for the words that you would like to put on a background image. I hope that answers your question.
Wow! I love tiled backgrounds! I’ll definitely use some of these.
nice background, thanks bro
I am having trouble downloading the files because they are in pat. and not jpeg.. Sorry for the amatuer question here, but is there a way I can download these beautiful layers in jpeg.? I am trying to make my first Christmas Card through photoshop elements 7. Any help would be appreciated soooooo much. I have been spending hours just trying to find a great background for my card projects. I would love something like a fleur de lis background or a paisley. Any suggestions?
~M
@Marissa Smith -
Hi I haven’t used Elements. But you can open the .pat file via file > open command or via patterns palette. I hope it works the same way in Elements 7.
cooool theme! Thanks!
Hi there, I have finally found what I am looking for but I just cannot download it! everytime I click on it the image is just opened up in a new window as a JPEG? Any advice?
Thanks so much
which pattern are you referring to? most of these patterns are available in pat or png formats.
@ Nicole: Please try clicking on the “DOWNLOAD BACKGROUND PATTERN” text in pink color found just below the image. Thanks
Thank you for a wonderful selection of textures. Besides, this is my favorite price
Looking for a pattern of illustrated animals. Any ideas? Thanks for such a great, reliable resource!
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Hey, I’m looking for seemless background tile to use on my website.
its a business website (im a photographer and videographer) see also http://www.duranphotography.com.au
can i use one of yours please?
Sure! You are free to use them.
I love this collection, great variety on patterns. Thanks for doing all this work.
Thanks you so much dear. We like your shares.