Retina Dust #915
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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Pattern cleanup 4 #157
Noise CC 0An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background #569
Light CC 0Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Background pattern 225 (colour 5) #2323
Blue CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Gray Lines #913
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Billie Holiday #1002
Light CC BY-SA 3.0No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Background pattern 214 (colour 5) #2374
Green CC 0A 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
Floral pattern 17 #1723
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 254 #2040
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Vichy@2X #72
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Floral background 11 #2044
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Cross Scratches@2X #626
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
Square ornament 41 #2085
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
White Plaster@2X #369
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Blu Stripes@2X #618
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Background pattern 15 #201
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Overlapped wood #2567
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 252 #2065
Dark CC 0Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin