Colourful background #2010
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
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Flying swan pattern #1978
Blue CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Pine Bark #1276
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Decorative divider 289 #1819
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Dark Geometric@2X #620
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 6 #2444
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 267 #2067
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 285 #1847
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background@2X #554
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Concrete Wall 2@2X #80
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 336 (colour 2) #1720
Green CC 0Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Light Gray Paper With Horizontal Lines #904
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark Metallic Background Pattern #1088
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Triangular ornament 32 #2435
Dark CC 0Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Brushed Alum@2X #68
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Background pattern 310 (colour 2) #1861
Yellow CC 0Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
The Black Mamba@2X #770
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Snowflake pattern remix #156
Dark CC 0The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
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
Leafy pattern #1971
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background@2X #574
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ