Silver Scales #189
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.

Source Alex Parker

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Background pattern 264 #2071
 Orange  CC 0

The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern pink #1948
 Pink  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 214 (colour 6) #2372
 Colorful  CC 0

A 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

Background pattern 223 (colour 3) #2351
 Green  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Type #276
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.

Source Atle Mo

Iron Grip #587
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.

Source Tony Kinard

Paven@2X #297
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.

Source Josh Green

Concrete Wall 2 #79
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.

Source Atle Mo

Graphene pattern 1 #2235
 Dark  CC 0

Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 230 #2304
 Yellow  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Lined Paper@2X #363
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.

Source Are Sundnes

Axiom Pattern@2X #331
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.

Source Struck Axiom

Background pattern 227 (colour 2) #2313
 Blue  CC 0

A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.

Source Firkin