Parquet flooring pattern #2427
Red CC 0A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
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Colourful background #2011
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Snow #627
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 238 (colour 2) #2228
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 198 (variant 2) #2509
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Blu Stripes@2X #618
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Background pattern 336 (colour 3) #1719
Blue CC 0Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background@2X #552
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Nistri@2X #774
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Brushed Alum@2X #68
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Easter egg 1 #159
Light CC 0One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Flower 193 #1794
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
Floral background 19 #1833
Dark CC 0Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Osckar
Source Firkin
Tessellation 16 (colour 4) #2212
Green CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Black Linen #63
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Floral background #1964
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider #1995
Yellow CC 0From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 265 #2081
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Vintage pattern 2 #2295
Yellow CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 41 #262
Fabric CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Fence 3 #2578
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
WaveCut@2X #76
Light CC BY-SA 3.0If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Fruit on a branch #1969
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Vichy #71
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Red #1247
Red CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Floral background 7 #2225
Yellow CC 0A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin