Dark Brick Wall #135
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!

Source Alex Parker

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Prismatic Floral Background@2X #474
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Floral Background

Source GDJ

Bright Squares@2X #88
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.

Source Waseem Dahman

Recharging the void #164
 Noise  CC 0

Original effect recreated by a simple filter.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 221 (colour) #2346
 Yellow  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

My Little Plaid@2X #333
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Repeating squares overlapping.

Source Pete Fecteau

Joined spirals pattern #2482
 Yellow  CC 0

The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg

Source Firkin

Background pattern 223 (colour 3) #2351
 Green  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern blue #1949
 Blue  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Interlocking pattern 3 (colour 2) #2405
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.

Source Firkin

Dark Circles@2X #307
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.

Source Atle Mo

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

Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo