Diagonal Waves #1006
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
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Dark Wall #817
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Diagonal Waves #1006
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Seamless Light Background Texture #1023
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light Honeycomb@2X #60
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 5) #2383
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Flourish 1 #2300
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Escheresque #777
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Tex2res4@2X #718
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
"Dark Red Canvas", Seamless Web Texture@2X #1222
Red CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 2 #221
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 294 #1921
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Groovepaper #577
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Simple Horizontal Light #982
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Background pattern 240 #2209
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Skewed Print@2X #820
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Configurable Graph Paper #141
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Pass parameters to the URL or edit the source code variables to configure the graph paper for the division desired.
Source JayNick
Dirty Old Black Shirt@2X #854
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Brick #1373
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Tessellation 15 (colour 3) #2220
Red CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin