From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
A seamless pattern formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
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
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
f you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin