Background pattern 19 (black) #203
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A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

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Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

fence pattern #2487
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The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".

Source Yamachem

Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background #447
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Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Lego background #266
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Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.

Source Firkin

overlay crack #153
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This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.

Source Lazur URH

Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)

Source V. Hartikainen

Background pattern 298 #1899
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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Sine wave background 2 #1734
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The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Floral background 20 #1813
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Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885

Source Firkin

Micro Carbon #7
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.

Source Atle Mo

Tessellation 16 (colour 3) #2213
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The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Fabric pattern (colour 6) #2397
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Alternative 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

Micro Carbon@2X #8
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.

Source Atle Mo

Old Mathematics #43
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.

Source Josh Green