Colourful bricks pattern (no background) #265
 Noise  CC 0

Original minus the background

Source Firkin

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Background pattern 112 #263
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.

Source Firkin

Black Scales@2X #192
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.

Source Alex Parker

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

Retina Wood #923
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 41 #262
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Wallpaper Tile 13 #240
 Light  CC 0

An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.

Source TikiGiki

edo pattern-samekomon #2271
 Dark  CC 0

The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.

Source Yamachem

Background pattern 252 (colour 6) #2157
 Light  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 104@2X #562
 Dark  CC 0

Background pattern 104

Source Firkin

Dark Wood@2X #321
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.

Source Omar Alvarado

Background pattern 202 #2491
 Brown  CC 0

Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Green Fibers@2X #92
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.

Source Matteo Di Capua

Colorful Floral Background 3 #483
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 3

Source GDJ