Handmade Paper@2X #38
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.

Source Marquis

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Background pattern 225 #2327
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 218 #2232
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background@2X #558
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Little Knobs #310
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!

Source Amos

Background pattern 227 (colour 2) #2313
 Blue  CC 0

A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Background 2 #487
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 2

Source GDJ

Zodiac pattern #2407
 Colorful  CC 0

A 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

Background pattern 7 #227
 Noise  CC 0

Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background #491
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Paper 2 #21
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 252 (colour 3) #2160
 Green  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

Checkered Light Emboss #280
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker