Foggy Birds@2X #580
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?

Source Pete Fecteau

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Pattern generator #161
 Noise  CC 0

A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Paven@2X #297
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.

Source Josh Green

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background #471
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background

Source GDJ

Repeating Art Paper Background #1078
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.

Source V. Hartikainen

Cross pattern (negative) #2332
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Dark Denim #29
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark denim looking pattern. 145×145 pixels.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 8 (black) #209
 Dark  CC 0

Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

White Paperboard #374
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!

Source Chaos