Floral tile 3 #1791
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
More Textures
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background@2X #570
Light CC 0Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background@2X #540
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
blue wave-seigaiha #2535
Blue CC 0The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
Background pattern 239 #2218
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background@2X #809
Noise CC 0Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
Floral pattern 17 (colour) #1724
Orange CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
White Wall #771
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Fall Leaves #243
Fabric CC 0Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
Weather decorative divider #1905
Dark CC 0Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Paisley #1343
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Background pattern 220 #2360
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 227 (colour 2) #2313
Blue CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Overlapping planks 6 #2570
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Prurple Paper #1257
Paper CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
School #1318
Yellow CC BY-SA 3.0Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
White Wall 3 #1148
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Cross Stripes #47
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Tessellation 16 (colour 5) #2211
Yellow CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zig-zag pattern 4 #2415
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark Denim@2X #373
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Joined spirals pattern #2482
Yellow CC 0The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin
Polaroid #187
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
ed62's pattern remixed #1728
Dark CC 0The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin