Stitched Wool@2X #844
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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Background pattern 227 #2314
Yellow CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background@2X #781
Light CC 0Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 306 (colour 6) #1878
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
P4 #1111
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Noise Lines@2X #898
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Knitted Sweater@2X #1098
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Black Thread #599
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Escheresque Dark@2X #1065
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
Blue CC 0The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Wood #49
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background #545
Dark CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 #465
Dark CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background #573
Noise CC 0Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Beige Paper@2X #84
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Gold Scale@2X #285
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Carbon Fiber v2@2X #106
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
Grass #1278
Green CC 0Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Use Your Illusion@2X #918
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Background pattern 245 (colour 6) #2187
Colorful CC 0This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 234 (colour 4) #2256
Pink CC 0Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 199 #2436
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Tree Bark #1182
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one is something special. I’d call it a flat pattern, too. Very well done, sir!
Source GetDiscount
Colourful background 14 (colour 2) #2525
Colorful CC 0An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Dark Brown Fabric-Like Texture #963
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Skewed Print #819
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Penrose pattern #1956
Colorful CC 0A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
Debut Light@2X #1013
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald