Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo