French Stucco #697
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
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Pineapple Cut@2X #584
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Light Paper Fibers #835
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Wall #4 Light #779
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Spiral pattern 3 #1934
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Translucent Fibres #943
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Diamond Eyes #685
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Background pattern 248 #2181
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 16 #2215
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
Tessellation 16 (colour 2) #2214
Colorful CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Stripy checkerboard pattern 2 #1767
Dark CC 0Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Background pattern 309 #1866
Yellow CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Square ornament 37 (colour) #2176
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Pink Background Pattern #1232
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 3) #2037
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark Brick Wall #135
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Vintage Speckles@2X #654
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Flourish 3 #2298
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Subtle Grey #955
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Grey Washed Wall@2X #1129
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Wavy background #2015
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
60º lines #25
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Tiny Grid@2X #892
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
Wavy background #2012
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Floral background #1964
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin