Foggy Birds #579
 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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Noisy@2X #46
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.

Source Mladjan Antic

Dark Circles@2X #307
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.

Source Atle Mo

Shapes pattern #2409
 Brown  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 41 #262
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Flower pattern 2 #160
 Noise  CC 0

With a gold filter.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 223 (colour 2) #2352
 Blue  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 230 #2304
 Yellow  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

seigaiha subtle color #2278
 Pink  CC 0

This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .

Source Yamachem

Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
 Pink  CC 0

A 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.

Source Firkin

Noisy #45
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.

Source Mladjan Antic

Pinstripe@2X #36
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray pattern with a thin pinstripe.

Source Brandon

Bright Multicolored Floral Background #559
 Noise  CC 0

Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.

Source GDJ

Tactile Noise@2X #6
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A 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

Joined spirals pattern #2482
 Yellow  CC 0

The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg

Source Firkin

Background pattern 201 (colour 3) #2493
 Grid  CC 0

A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin