From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
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
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Just like the black maze, only in light gray. Duh.
Source Peax
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin