Brilliant #753
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
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Floral design 88 #1876
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark Brown Wood Background (Tile-able) #886
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Tile-able Dark Brown Wood Background. Feel free to use it as a background image in your designs or somewhere on the web. By the way, the color seems to be close to Coffee Brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Diamond pattern 2 #2268
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Debut Dark@2X #1015
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
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
Background pattern 315 (colour 6) #1840
Green CC 0The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Wall #4 Light@2X #780
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Brushed Alum Dark@2X #66
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
Arches #715
Light CC BY-SA 3.0One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
P5 #1113
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Fabric pattern (colour 4) #2399
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
Background pattern 29 #200
Dark CC 0Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Sports car pattern #2442
Red CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 10 (variant 2) #2544
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background@2X #809
Noise CC 0Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
Escheresque Dark #1064
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Tasky #667
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
Small Steps #1312
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Wood Pattern@2X #371
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Background pattern pink #1954
Pink CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Shattered #951
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars