Clean gray paper #859
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
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Tessellation 11 (variant 2) #2539
Grid CC 0The original enhanced with some gradients.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 261 #2076
Dark CC 0Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
Tex2res3@2X #724
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Vintage tile background #2248
Brown CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless Stone Background #1055
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
Page ornament #1993
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Blu Stripes@2X #618
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 5) #2035
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zig-zag pattern 6 #2413
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 293 #1752
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Graphy@2X #351
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Wavy background #2012
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Floral design 98 (colour) #1781
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Floral design 98 #1783
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Bright Squares #87
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Background pattern 328 (colour 3) #1799
Noise CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Background pattern 302 #1894
Red CC 0The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Asfalt@2X #928
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Diamond pattern 2 (colour 5) #2264
Blue CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Diagmonds #336
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Background pattern 236 #2249
Dark CC 0Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin