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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

Background pattern 332 #1742
 Noise  CC 0

The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Tessellation 15 (colour) #2222
 Blue  CC 0

The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Octagonal Background #439
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Octagonal Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 41 #262
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Random Grey Variations@2X #70
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.

Source Stefan Aleksić

Background pattern 214 (colour 5) #2374
 Green  CC 0

A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.

Source Firkin

MBossed@2X #194
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.

Source Alex Parker

Background pattern 252 (colour) #2161
 Colorful  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

Dark Leather #129
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.

Source Atle Mo

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 3) #2037
 Colorful  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

WaveCut@2X #76
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.

Source Ian Soper