A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
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
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma