Simple Horizontal Light@2X #983
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
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Pink CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
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Red CC 0Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
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Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
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Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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Dark CC 0Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
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Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
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Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
Blue CC 0The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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Simple Horizontal Light@2X #983
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Flying swan pattern #1979
Blue CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 227 (colour 4) #2311
Green CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
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Dark CC 0Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
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Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
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Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
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Back Pattern #945
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Source M.Ashok
Green Fibers@2X #92
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
crissXcross #111
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
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Cover Green #1283
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Source Sojan Janso
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Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
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