Floral design 98 #1783
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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Sewn Stripes Pattern #964
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
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Background pattern 308 (colour 2) #1871
Green CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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Grid Me #605
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse #197
Dark CC 0Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
Office #957
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
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Colourful background 32 #2173
Colorful CC 0Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Subtle Striped Brown Background Pattern #940
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Square ornament 38 #2147
Dark CC 0From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Pattern cleanup 4 #157
Noise CC 0An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background #411
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Gun Metal@2X #361
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Yellow Wood Planks Background #876
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Beige Paper #83
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Page ornament 21 #2361
Dark CC 0From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Old Mathematics #43
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
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
Spotty Pink Background (Seamless) #1236
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Prismatic Geometric Pattern With Background #264
Dark CC 0Seamless Prismatic Geometric Pattern With Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 294 #1921
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Desert Camo Print #255
Fabric CC 0Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
Seamless Green Tile Background #1326
Green CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
Candy cane pattern #1853
Noise CC 0Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
Noisy #45
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic