This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin