Soft Kill@2X #319
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.

Source Factorio.us Collective

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Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background #411
 Light  CC 0

Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background #272
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Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Colourful background #2009
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Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Background pattern 223 (colour 4) #2350
 Pink  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

Bird pattern (colour 2) #2292
 Green  CC 0

Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 267 #2067
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i

Source Firkin

Retro Squares Background 7 #397
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Squares Background 7

Source GDJ

Cardboard@2X #279
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.

Source Atle Mo

Bright Squares@2X #88
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.

Source Waseem Dahman

Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background #573
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Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Green Fibers #91
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Source Matteo Di Capua

Background pattern 41 #262
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Interlocking pattern 3 #2406
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 239 #2218
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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin