Background pattern 6 #225
Noise CC 0Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
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Geometric pattern #2005
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Seamless Textured Paper Background #1075
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
Elegant Grid@2X #317
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
Light Honeycomb@2X #60
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Cross pattern (negative) #2332
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Pattern generator #161
Noise CC 0A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Square ornament 27 #2523
Dark CC 0Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Triangles@2X #744
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background #489
Noise CC 0Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
WaveCut #75
Light CC BY-SA 3.0If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Floral design 71 #2429
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Through Pixel Dream #1228
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0A yellow tiled background... Blurriness, bokeh effect and rectangles pattern in one mix.
Source V. Hartikainen
Black Scales #191
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Decorative divider #1996
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Cream Pixels #1144
Light CC BY-SA 3.0If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Decorative divider 243 #2082
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 258 #2135
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 3) #2394
Fabric CC 0Not 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
Background pattern 226 (colour 4) #2319
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Cardboard #278
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Leafy pattern 9 #1802
Green CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
White Leather #639
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
Sine wave background #1735
Dark CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Vintage pattern #1958
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Spiral background 2 (colour 2) #2244
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Joined spirals pattern #2482
Yellow CC 0The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin