Background pattern 309 (colour 4) #1863
Green CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
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Crisp Paper Ruffles@2X #842
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Background pattern 235 (colour 2) #2254
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Paisley #1343
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Fruit on a branch #1967
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern 3 #2387
Fabric CC 0Alternative 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
Grid Me #605
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Project Papper@2X #120
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Wine waiter pattern #2403
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background@2X #803
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Green Web Background, Seamless tile #1332
Green CC BY-SA 3.0Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vintage tile background #2248
Brown CC 0A 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
Background pattern 29 #200
Dark CC 0Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black #410
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Black Metallic Pattern #1090
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Escheresque Dark@2X #1065
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
White Sand@2X #20
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Diagonal Noise@2X #182
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Vintage Speckles@2X #654
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Cork Floor #1281
Yellow CC 0Zero CC tileable cork floor, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso