Abstract Tiled Background Extended 9 #520
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Abstract Tiled Background Extended 9

Source GDJ

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Diamond pattern (colour 7) #2274
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From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Dots Background 2@2X #504
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Prismatic Dots Background 2

Source GDJ

Washi #288
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!

Source Carolynne

Colourful background #2007
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Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black@2X #464
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black

Source GDJ

Polonez Pattern@2X #335
 Gray  CC BY-SA 3.0

A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!

Source Radosław Rzepecki

Dark Wood #320
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.

Source Omar Alvarado

Pattern generator #161
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 232 #2297
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Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.

Source Firkin

Floral pattern 7 (colour 5) #2287
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Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Vintage tile background #2248
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A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin