Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #1218
 Yellow  CC BY-SA 3.0

A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.

Source V. Hartikainen

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Background pattern 223 #2353
 Red  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background@2X #572
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Green Dust & Scratches #107
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.

Source Atle Mo

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background #407
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background

Source GDJ

Leafy pattern (colour) #2334
 Fabric  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Vichy@2X #72
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.

Source Olivier Pineda

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black@2X #438
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black

Source GDJ

overlay crack #153
 Noise  CC 0

This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.

Source Lazur URH

"Black Chains", Gloomy Background #1082
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.

Source V. Hartikainen

Retina Dust@2X #916
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 225 (colour 4) #2324
 Green  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Diamond pattern (colour 4) #2282
 Blue  CC 0

From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 7 #227
 Noise  CC 0

Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

3px Tile@2X #343
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Tiny dark square tiles with varied color tones.

Source Gre3g

Geometric pattern #2005
 Grid  CC 0

A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Pineapple Cut #583
 Diamond  CC BY-SA 3.0

I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.

Source Audee Mirza