If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin