Prismatic Arrows Background 2 #393
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Prismatic Arrows Background 2

Source GDJ

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Prismatic Dots Background@2X #502
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Prismatic Dots Background

Source GDJ

Silver Scales@2X #190
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.

Source Alex Parker

Floral background 20 #1813
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Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885

Source Firkin

Geometric pattern #2002
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A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Black Mamba@2X #58
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.

Source Federica Pelzel

Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
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A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Pattern generator #161
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Decorative divider #1986
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.

Source Firkin

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

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 19 (black) #203
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A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 29 #200
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Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.

Source Firkin