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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Texturetastic Gray #615
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
P4@2X #1112
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 2) #2038
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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 7 (grey) #206
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
White Plaster #368
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Decorative divider 246 #2078
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 6 #226
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Shattered #951
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Tessellation 10 #2547
Grid CC 0An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Faded Yellow Stripes, Background Pattern #1218
Yellow 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
Wavy background #2012
Green CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Congruent Pentagon Outline #1308
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Cover Red #1282
Red CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover red book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Type@2X #277
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Background pattern 19 (outline) #204
Light CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
P2@2X #1108
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Wood with flaky paint #2562
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Escheresque Dark@2X #1065
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Decorative divider 290 #1817
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Blizzard #663
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background #553
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ