Soft Wallpaper #95
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.

Source Atle Mo

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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

Vintage pattern #1960
 Grid  CC 0

Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

Type@2X #277
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Source Atle Mo

Fabric pattern 3 (colour 2) #2386
 Fabric  CC 0

Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 202 #2491
 Brown  CC 0

Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Retro Squares Background 6 #396
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Squares Background 6

Source GDJ

Background pattern 314 (colour 5) #1835
 Pink  CC 0

The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Seamless arrow pattern remix #2528
 Dark  CC 0

Similar to original, but without gaps in between the arrows. This seamless pattern was created from a rectangular tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

“Transparent” Background Pattern #493
 Light  CC 0

An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.

Source AdamStanislav

Background pattern 328 (colour 5) #1797
 Blue  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Elegant Grid@2X #317
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.

Source GraphicsWall

Polonez Pattern@2X #335
 Gray  CC BY-SA 3.0

A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!

Source Radosław Rzepecki

Fabric 1 #9
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.

Source Atle Mo