Gray Sand #17
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
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SubtleNet #855
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background #449
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Dark Wood #320
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Background pattern 306 #1882
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Vaio #675
Diamond CC BY-SA 3.0I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
Zig-zag pattern #2418
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Spotty Pink Background (Seamless) #1236
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 234 (colour 3) #2257
Blue CC 0Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Background pattern yellow #2025
Yellow CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Crow and bird pattern #1965
Dark CC 0CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
White Plaster #368
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Rushes divider #2152
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Farmer #659
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
Interlocking pattern 3 #2406
Grid 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.
Source Firkin
Filter pack #150
Noise CC 0Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
Floral design 98 #1783
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Noise Lines #897
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Fleurs-de-lys pattern 2 #2205
Dark CC 0Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Floral background 2 #2471
Yellow CC 0Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
Iron Grip #587
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Scenery decorative divider #1909
Dark CC 0Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Elastoplast@2X #283
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Seamless Gray Stone Background #1028
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Background Pattern with Warped Vertical Stripes #968
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A green background pattern with warped vertical stripes and a grunge look.
Source V. Hartikainen