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
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Egg Shell@2X #862
Light CC BY-SA 3.0It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Floral design 71 #2429
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Leafy pattern 7 #1828
Dark CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by CatherineClennan
Source Firkin
Escheresque Dark #1064
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Embossed Paper@2X #732
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Background pattern 308 #1872
Yellow CC 0Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 205 #2381
Dark CC 0Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Background pattern green #1947
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sewn Stripes Pattern #964
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Light Toast@2X #760
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Retina Dust@2X #916
Light CC BY-SA 3.0First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Floral pattern 7 (colour 4) #2288
Green CC 0Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Gold Wall #1242
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Floral background 10 #2046
Yellow CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Small Crosses #115
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Diagonal Noise #181
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Tessellation 9 #2548
Grid CC 0A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tessellation 16 #2215
Yellow CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin