Floral design 71 #2429
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.

Source Firkin

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Background pattern black #2028
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Zig-zag pattern 3 #2416
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3-remix #215
 Noise  CC 0

This is the remix of "Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks.

Source Yamachem

Background pattern 227 (colour 5) #2310
 Colorful  CC 0

A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 115-seamless pattern #2514
 Blue  CC 0

This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.

Source Yamachem

Pattern generator #161
 Noise  CC 0

A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

Seamless 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 2 #147
 Light  CC 0

A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).

Source GDJ

Cubes@2X #134
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.

Source Sander Ottens

Prismatic Floral Background@2X #474
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Floral Background

Source GDJ

Smooth Dark Wall #1266
 Wall  CC 0

Zero 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

Background pattern 214 (colour 5) #2374
 Green  CC 0

A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.

Source Firkin