Floral tile 3 #1791
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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Love decorative divider #1910
Colorful CC 0Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
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Vintage tile background #2248
Brown CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Noise CC 0Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background
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Floral design 99 #1776
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Wave Grind@2X #1133
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Transparent Square Tiles #298
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
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Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
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Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
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Background pattern 235 #2255
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 306 (colour 6) #1878
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 257 #2137
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Epithalamion tailpiece #2527
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Transparent Square Tiles@2X #299
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
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Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
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Background pattern 245 (colour 3) #2190
Blue CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Project Papper #119
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
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Faded Blue Stripe Pattern #939
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 259 (colour 6) #2097
Blue CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4@2X #462
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Inspiration Geometry@2X #1176
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
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Noise Pattern With Subtle Cross Lines #179
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
Background pattern 224 (colour 5) #2338
Colorful CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tex2res3@2X #724
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
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Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Source Atle Mo