Are there any sites that provide nice ones for free or do you just take from Google?

 

Or do you make them yourselves?

Sometimes I make them myself but most of the time I use lostandtaken.com

http://www.patternify.com/

http://subtlepatterns.com/

 

I'll work with purchased or free stock photos (after a little photoshop tweaking to fit whatever color scheme we have working) sometimes, but more often than not I'm working on a pure white background with a super subtle texture or pattern.

@porkchops awesome websites mate! thank you for sharing

http://www.cgtextures.com/

 

You can try this one too

http://www.patternify.com/

http://subtlepatterns.com/

 

I'll work with purchased or free stock photos (after a little photoshop tweaking to fit whatever color scheme we have working) sometimes, but more often than not I'm working on a pure white background with a super subtle texture or pattern.

SubtlePatterns is one of my all-time favourite sites, but I'd not heard of Patternify. Bookmarked, thanks for that!

 

My contribution is ColourLovers' excellent list of patterns!