Brilliant #753
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
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Vintage pattern 2 #2295
Yellow CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Triangular ornament 32 #2435
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Gold Wall & Dark #1250
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
P4 #1111
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Vertical Cloth@2X #598
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
Background pattern 238 (colour 3) #2227
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Gray Floral@2X #756
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Purty Wood@2X #678
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Tweed@2X #1151
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Floral divider 2 #1924
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin
Cream Dust@2X #981
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Paven@2X #297
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Background pattern 251 #2167
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Blizzard #663
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Dark Geometric #619
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Flowery pattern 4 #2328
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
birdface seamless pattern #2470
Unknow CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern made using a bird's face.
Source Yamachem
Colourful background #2010
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin