Squares@2X #303
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?

Source Jaromír Kavan

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Rough Cloth@2X #313
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Source Bartosz Kaszubowski

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black #437
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black

Source GDJ

Background pattern 328 (colour 3) #1799
 Noise  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 217 #2233
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.

Source Firkin

Rubber Grip #101
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.

Source Sinisha

Fabric pattern (colour 5) #2398
 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 195 #2587
 Grid  CC 0

Inspired by a pattern I saw in a 19th century book. This seamless pattern was created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

White carbon@2X #12
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 333 #1741
 Noise  CC 0

The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 271 #1923
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.

Source Firkin

Vintage tile background #2248
 Brown  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

Stripy checkerboard pattern 2 #1767
 Dark  CC 0

Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts

Source Firkin