Flourish 3 #2298
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
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Floral background #1973
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Small Crosses@2X #116
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Stitched Wool@2X #844
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Brick #1377
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Background pattern black #2028
Dark CC 0Remixed 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
Background pattern 19 (outline) #204
Light CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Rice Paper 2 #340
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 310 (colour 2) #1861
Yellow CC 0Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
Black Wall #1267
Wall CC 0Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black@2X #486
Light CC 0Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Double Lined #51
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Light Blue Background Pattern #1161
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0This light blue background pattern is quite pleasing to the eye, it consists of a tiny rough grid pattern, which is seamless by design. That's it, if you like the color, you can use this seamless pattern in a web design without making any further modifications to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral pattern 6 (colour 4) #2458
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 199 #2508
Green CC 0Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 15 #1753
Dark CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Spiral background 2 (colour 2) #2244
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Mooning@2X #1141
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black@2X #468
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Leafy pattern 12 (colour) #1762
Red CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Green Wall #1268
Wall CC 0Zero CC bark from fur tree tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Swirl@2X #948
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
Redox 01@2X #850
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Type@2X #277
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Tactile Noise@2X #6
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo