Tactile Noise #5
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
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“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
Light CC 0An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Page ornament #1987
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
Pink CC 0A 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
Floral design 107 #1713
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Tree and bird pattern #1983
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background@2X #535
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Colourful background #2008
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Wavy background #2012
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 189 #2518
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 302 (colour 2) #1887
Green CC 0Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
Cross pattern #2333
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Floral divider 3 #1751
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Soft Pad #613
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Farmer@2X #660
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black@2X #812
Noise CC 0Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Background pattern #2000
Dark CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Feathered #1324
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Background Pattern Green #1939
Green CC 0Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Background pattern 250 (colour) #2171
Yellow CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Aged Paper Background Tile #1074
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen