Stitched Wool #843
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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Decorative divider 299 #1743
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Background pattern #1963
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Black Linen@2X #64
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Tessellation 16 (colour 2) #2214
Colorful CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 320 #1830
Pink CC 0Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Tessellation 9 #2548
Grid CC 0A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 236 #2090
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Dark Fish Skin #1048
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Hexellence #705
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Navy #984
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
Paper 3 #31
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
Handmade Paper@2X #38
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
Black Mamba@2X #58
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Colourful background #2009
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 201 #2421
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 284 #1848
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 223 #2353
Red CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin