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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background@2X #542
 Diamond  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 201 (colour 4) #2494
 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

Black Linen@2X #64
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

Vintage pattern #1957
 Grid  CC 0

Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 236 #2249
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Seamless Colorful Floral Pattern Background #256
 Fabric  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Background pattern 224 (colour 6) #2337
 Colorful  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Micro Carbon #7
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 252 (colour 6) #2157
 Light  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Spirals pattern #1994
 Colorful  CC 0

Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Lead glass tile #2048
 Colorful  CC 0

Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.

Source Firkin

Colourful background #2007
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin