Checkered Light Emboss@2X #281
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker

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Fabric pattern 2 (colour 6) #2391
 Fabric  CC 0

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

Light Orange Brown Wallpaper #911
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Geometric pattern #2005
 Grid  CC 0

A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Cardboard #278
 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

Background pattern black and white #2030
 Dark  CC 0

A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.

Source Firkin

A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.

Source V. Hartikainen

lotus crane #2499
 Concrete  CC 0

The image depicts a seamless pattern of the design which includes a stylized lotus and a stylized crane.I referred to the original image in a book which is into public domain.

Source Yamachem

Mosaic Gems Background@2X #527
 Noise  CC 0

Mosaic Gems Background

Source GDJ

Triangular Psychosis 3 #235
 Noise  CC 0

A colorful triangular background, variation 3.

Source GDJ

Graphene pattern 1 #2235
 Dark  CC 0

Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Dots Background 4@2X #508
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background 4

Source GDJ

Background pattern 264 #2071
 Orange  CC 0

The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Zig-zag pattern 6 #2413
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin