Silver Scales@2X #190
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
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Decorative divider 219 #2231
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Noisy #45
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Diamond pattern (colour 5) #2281
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Bark #1291
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
"Seamless Bark", Website Background. #879
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
"Black Chains", Gloomy Background #1082
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Whitey #109
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Fruit pattern 4 #2453
Pink CC 0A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Floral design 97 #1778
Yellow CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
“Transparent” Background Pattern #493
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Seamless Pink Background Texture #1233
Pink CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 253 #2153
Brown CC 0A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Checkered Light Emboss #280
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Leafy divider (colour) #1759
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 328 (colour 6) #1796
Red CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Wavy background #2015
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
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
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background #571
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ