Texturetastic Gray #615
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
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Simple Horizontal Light@2X #983
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Background pattern 334 #1729
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Cloth Alike@2X #1094
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black@2X #446
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Green and Yellow Lines on White Background #1000
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background@2X #807
Noise CC 0Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background
Source GDJ
Escheresque@2X #778
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Floral design 96 #1789
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Floral background 11 #2044
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Waves #1006
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Leafy pattern 4 #1915
Green CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Ice Age #637
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Fruit pattern 4 #2453
Pink CC 0A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 235 #2091
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
"Brown Stone Wall" #1026
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern pink #1948
Pink CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin