Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin