First 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
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim