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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Light Toast #759
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Vintage pattern #1959
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
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Background pattern 339 (colour 2) #1707
Green CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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Vintage pattern #1961
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 308 (colour 5) #1869
Blue CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
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Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
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Farmer #659
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Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
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Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Wave Grind #1132
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo