Geometric pattern #2005
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
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Straws #972
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Fruit pattern 4 #2453
Pink CC 0A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Snow #627
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless Wood Pattern #889
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nami@2X #576
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
Natural Paper@2X #834
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Background pattern 21 #205
Light CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Arches #715
Light CC BY-SA 3.0One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
Diagonal Noise@2X #182
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Iron Grip@2X #588
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Wood Background Pattern #882
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 242 #2083
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black #455
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Background pattern 271 #2058
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Otis Redding@2X #1005
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Colourful background #2007
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Tessellation 11 (variant 3) #2536
Grid CC 0The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 303 #1888
Unknow CC 0Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Pixel Weave@2X #1155
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
Diamond Eyes@2X #686
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Paper 2@2X #22
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Leafy divider (colour) #1759
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Tex2res1@2X #722
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Inspiration Geometry #1175
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Background pattern 254 #2144
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 213 (colour) #2411
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
Knitted Netting #603
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk