Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
This one is something special. I’d call it a flat pattern, too. Very well done, sir!
Source GetDiscount
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Prismatic 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 6
Source GDJ
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by DavidZydd
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
Used a cherry by doctormo to make this seamless pattern
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić