Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
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Grid Me@2X #606
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Decorative divider 194 #2478
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 213 #2412
Dark CC 0A 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
Page ornament #1993
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
White Wall #1105
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Background pattern 8 (greyscale) #210
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Background pattern 332 #1742
Noise CC 0The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Wood Background Pattern #882
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 279 #1889
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
Dark Brown Wood Pattern #884
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colourful background #2008
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Green Gobbler@2X #86
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
Block Well #1696
Colorful CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
blocky filter pack 2 #158
Noise CC 0Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
Tex2res1 #721
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Floral background 22 #1780
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Vintage Speckles #653
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Checkered Light Emboss@2X #281
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Stamped Dots On Metal #1083
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
45-Degree Fabric #1
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Wood #49
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
Tweed #1150
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo