Paisley Background@2X #496
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Paisley Background

Source GDJ

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Green Fibers #91
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.

Source Matteo Di Capua

Graphy@2X #351
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.

Source We Are Pixel8

Prismatic Dots Background 3@2X #506
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Prismatic Dots Background 3

Source GDJ

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background@2X #554
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Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Floral design 100 (version 2, colour) #1772
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 208 #2465
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A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 250 #2070
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 306 (colour 3) #1880
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Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background #532
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Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 251 (colour 3) #2165
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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Colourful background #2010
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Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Always Grey #53
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.

Source Stefan Aleksić

Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)

Source V. Hartikainen

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 6) #2034
 Pink  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
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The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin