Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
If you want png files of thisu can download them here :
Source Viscious-Speed
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
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
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin