Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Pattern Background, Texture, Photoshop Structure style CC0 texture.
Source Darkmoon1968
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable Laminate wood texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso