Floral background 22 #1780
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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Square ornament 26 #2590
Dark CC 0Square design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Light Wool #695
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Background pattern 226 (colour 5) #2317
Blue CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tileable Wood #655
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Dark Tire #703
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Subtle Dots #921
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Vintage pattern 2 #2295
Yellow CC 0Inspired 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
meshed silhouette-omnibus #2484
Brown CC 0The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Blizzard #663
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Chain background #2063
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Squares@2X #303
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
GPlay@2X #736
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Paper 2@2X #22
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Smooth Dark Wall #1266
Wall CC 0Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Dark Sharp Edges #1320
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Concrete Wall 3@2X #94
Light CC BY-SA 3.0All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Diagonales Decalées@2X #1019
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
Background pattern 19 (black) #203
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
plant pattern 02 #2504
Unknow CC 0The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
Dark Stripes@2X #40
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Elastoplast #282
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Background pattern 230 #2304
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Elegant Grid@2X #317
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall