Soft Circle Scales@2X #114
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Japanese looking fish scale pattern.

Source Ian Soper

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Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background #394
 Light  CC 0

Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Green Fibers@2X #92
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.

Source Matteo Di Capua

Art nouveau tile pattern remix #2529
 Green  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black@2X #468
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black

Source GDJ

Rough Cloth #312
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.

Source Bartosz Kaszubowski

Paper 2 #21
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.

Source Atle Mo

Beige Paper #83
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.

Source Konstantin Ivanov

Fish Pattern Background #233
 Noise  CC 0

From PDP.

Source GDJ

Noisy #45
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.

Source Mladjan Antic

Wood Pattern #370
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.

Source Alexey Usoltsev

Groovepaper@2X #578
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.

Source Isaac

45-Degree Fabric #1
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.

Source Atle Mo

Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
 Green  CC 0

A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background@2X #574
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Floral Pattern Background 5 #219
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ