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Subtle Freckles #89
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 309 (colour 2) #1865
 Blue  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 1 #220
 Noise  CC 0

A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 308 (colour 2) #1871
 Green  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 214 #2377
 Blue  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.

Source Firkin

Background pattern green #2027
 Green  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 268 #2066
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i

Source Firkin

Light Brown Wallpaper With Vertical Stripes #905
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.

Source V. Hartikainen

Prismatic Floral Background@2X #474
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Floral Background

Source GDJ

Colourful background #2010
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Graphene pattern 2 #2234
 Dark  CC 0

Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 328 (colour 3) #1799
 Noise  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 207 (colour 2) #2464
 Colorful  CC 0

A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Lego background #2428
 Colorful  CC 0

Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.

Source Firkin