There are three main options to you when choosing a background for your website design. You either choose a solid background color, a solid background image, or a background pattern. A background color can also be used in conjunction with a background image
A background pattern is a tiny image that is repeated into infinity in the background of your website design. This can be done by utilising the background-image and background-repeat CSS properties.
For example, you could repeat a background image vertically by adding this to your CSS stylesheet:
body {
background-image: url('background.gif');
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
You could repeat the image horizontally by adding this to your CSS stylesheet:
body {
background-image: url('background.gif');
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
In this article, I would like to share with you 20 websites in which you can search for good background patterns and then download them free of charge.
1. Subtle Patterns
![Subtle Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/subtlepatterns-wordpress-theme.jpg)
2. The Pattern Library
![The Pattern Library Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thepatternlibrary-background-patterns.jpg)
3. Ava7 Patterns
![Ava7 Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/patterns.ava7-background-patterns.jpg)
4. Wild Textures
![Wild Textures Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wildtextures-background-patterns.jpg)
5. Colour Lovers
![Colour Lovers Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/colourlovers-patterns.jpg)
6. Graphics Wall
![Graphics Wall Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/graphicswall-background-patterns.jpg)
7. Pattern Head
![Pattern Head Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/patternhead-background-patterns.jpg)
8. Free Seam Less Textures
![Free Seamless Textures, Background and Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/freeseamlesstextures-background-patterns.jpg)
9. Din Pattern
![Din Pattern Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/dinpattern-background-patterns.jpg)
10. Stripe Generator
![Stripe Generator Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stripegenerator-background-patterns.jpg)
11. Brusheezy
![Brusheezy Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/brusheezy-background-patterns.jpg)
12. Repeat X Repeat Y
![Repeat X Repeat Y](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/repeatxrepeaty-background-patterns.jpg)
13. Cool Patterns
![Cool Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/coolpatterns-background-patterns.jpg)
14. Pattern 8
![Pattern 8 Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pattern8-background-patterns.jpg)
15. Tile-able Website Backgrounds
![Tile-able Website Backgrounds](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tile-able-website-backgrounds.jpg)
16. Pattern Cooler
![Pattern Cooler Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/patterncooler-background-patterns.jpg)
17. Web Texture
![Web Texture Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/webtexture-background-patterns.jpg)
18. Bgrepeat
![Bgrepeat Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bgrepeat-background-patterns.jpg)
19. Background Labs
![Background Labs Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/backgroundlabs-background-patterns.jpg)
20. Shizoo
![Shizoo Background Patterns](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shizoo-background-patterns.jpg)
I hope you have found this list useful. If so, I encourage you to subscribe to my newsletter for future updates.
Kevin