Micro Carbon #7
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
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Cloth Alike@2X #1094
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Lead glass tile #2048
Colorful CC 0Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 218 #2232
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background #569
Light CC 0Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Background pattern 306 (colour 5) #1879
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Page ornament #1992
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Gray Diagonal Stripes Background #900
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Noisy Grid@2X #960
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Light Honeycomb@2X #60
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Graphene pattern 2 #2234
Dark CC 0Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Project Papper@2X #120
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Notebook@2X #1179
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Project Papper #119
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Background pattern 228 #2308
Colorful CC 0Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
White Sand@2X #20
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
pinetree leaves seamless pattern #2517
Colorful CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern of pine tree leaves.
Source Yamachem
Gray Striped Fabric Pattern #1170
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a new gray "fabric" pattern. Use it as backgrounds for websites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 236 #2090
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Grid Paper Background (Blue Gray) #1162
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
White Bed Sheet #821
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background@2X #572
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Wavy background #2020
Green CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight