Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
 Pink  CC 0

A 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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Light Honeycomb@2X #60
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.

Source Federica Pelzel

Elegant Grid #316
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.

Source GraphicsWall

WaveCut #75
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.

Source Ian Soper

Background pattern 220 #2360
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.

Source Firkin

Woven@2X #291
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.

Source Max Rudberg

Background pattern 262 #2075
 Dark  CC 0

Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 #457
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3

Source GDJ

Dark Leather #129
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.

Source Atle Mo

Sine wave background 2 #1734
 Dark  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Carbon Fiber v2 #105
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.

Source Atle Mo

Colourful bricks pattern (no background) #265
 Noise  CC 0

Original minus the background

Source Firkin

Spirals pattern #1994
 Colorful  CC 0

Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Background pattern 259 (colour 5) #2098
 Pink  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Background pattern 309 (colour 3) #1864
 Red  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 314 (colour 4) #1836
 Blue  CC 0

The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

White Paperboard@2X #375
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!

Source Chaos

Leafy design 18 (colour)@2XaFloral design 96 (colour) #1787
 Green  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.

Source Firkin