From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a pattern of regular hexagon.As I made to use it for myself,I want to others to use it.Speaking about the ratio of the image, height : width = 2 : √3(1.732...)Ridiculous to say,I realized later that this image is not honey comb pattern.I have to slide the second row.
Source Yamachem
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless paper background texture colored in pale yellow. This seamless texture is ideal for those who need a yellow background image for their website. The texture resembles paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic