Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
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Leafy pattern (colour) #2334
Fabric CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 13 variant 1 #2532
Yellow CC 0Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
Txture@2X #758
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Background pattern 251 #2167
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black@2X #790
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Background pattern 313 #1858
Dark CC 0Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 #465
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 200 #2420
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Micro Carbon@2X #8
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
Diagonal Striped Brick@2X #680
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Climpek@2X #776
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Sports car pattern 2 #2441
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Strange Bullseyes@2X #866
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Leafy design 18 (colour) #1786
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Mermaid divider #1970
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Spirals pattern #1994
Colorful CC 0Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Subtle Carbon #949
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Page ornament 53 #2060
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Pink Lime Circle Pattern Scrapbook Paper #145
Noise CC BY-SA 3.0Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black #485
Light CC 0Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Glossy Diagonal Stripes, Background Pattern #908
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Felt@2X #301
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Subtle Orange Emboss #97
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf