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 is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen