Brushed Alum Dark #65
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.

Source Tim Ward

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Background pattern 214 (colour 6) #2372
 Colorful  CC 0

A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.

Source Firkin

R.I.P Steve Jobs@2X #293
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

Source Atle Mo

Patchwork Quilt Pattern Background #228
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Background pattern 250 (colour) #2171
 Yellow  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 230 #2304
 Yellow  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Carbon Fiber #3
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.

Source Atle Mo

Little Knobs@2X #311
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!

Source Amos

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background #541
 Diamond  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Floral design 71 #2429
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.

Source Firkin

Squares@2X #303
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?

Source Jaromír Kavan

Repeating Website Background (Blue Gray) #1192
 Concrete  CC BY-SA 3.0

The following repeating website background is colored in a blue gray color and resembles a concrete wall or something similar to it.

Source V. Hartikainen

Cardboard@2X #279
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.

Source Atle Mo

Zig Zag@2X #329
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.

Source Dmitriy Prodchenko

WaveCut@2X #76
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.

Source Ian Soper

Floral background 2@2X #430
 Wall  CC 0

Background formed from the original with an emboss effect

Source GDJ

Mosaic tile #2481
 Brown  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 213 (colour) #2411
 Colorful  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.

Source Firkin

Triangles pattern #2408
 Brown  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin