Brushed Alum #67
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
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Floral background #1964
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Square ornament 37 (colour) #2176
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Otis Redding #1004
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Subtle Dots@2X #922
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Congruent Pentagon Outline #1308
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Zig Zag #328
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
Wave Grind #1132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Overlapped wood #2567
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Bird pattern (colour 2) #2292
Green CC 0Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern 9 #1802
Green CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
Background pattern 234 (colour 3) #2257
Blue CC 0Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Diagmonds@2X #337
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Moss #1290
Wall CC 0ZeroCC tileable moss texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Small Crosses@2X #116
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Background pattern 9 (colour) #214
Noise CC 0Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Diamonds Are Forever@2X #184
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
Green Dust & Scratches #107
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
White Bed Sheet@2X #822
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Light Wool #695
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Background pattern 290 #1932
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 334 (colour 2) #1731
Yellow CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Fabric of Squares #1095
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba