Vintage tile background #2248
Brown 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
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Solid #845
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Perforated White Leather #635
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
Pattern generator #161
Noise CC 0A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Redox 01@2X #850
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Green Dust & Scratches@2X #108
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Blue on White Background Pattern #993
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Txture #757
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Egg Shell #861
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Floral design 90 #1815
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #933
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 2 #147
Light CC 0A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Natural Paper@2X #834
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Light Grey Floral Motif #344
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
Disks pattern #1890
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by DavidZydd
Source Firkin
Background pattern #1941
Brown CC 0Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Bird pattern #2293
Pink CC 0Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Floral pattern 6 (colour 6) #2455
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Satin Weave@2X #1045
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
Background pattern 29 #200
Dark CC 0Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 208 (colour 2) #2462
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background@2X #787
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
paper filer pack 2 #140
Noise CC 0A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Rice Paper #338
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Geometric pattern #2004
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Square ornament 26 #2590
Dark CC 0Square design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 251 (colour 4) #2164
Blue CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin