Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
 Green  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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Background pattern 221 #2347
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Electric recharge #163
 Noise  CC 0

Simple turbulence filter rigged in in inkscape.

Source Lazur URH

Concrete Wall@2X #78
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 250 #2172
 Dark  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Diagonal Noise@2X #182
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.

Source Christopher Burton

“Transparent” Background Pattern #493
 Light  CC 0

An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.

Source AdamStanislav

Background pattern 306 #1882
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Seamless Wood Pattern #889
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.

Source V. Hartikainen

Tessellation 14 variant 1 #2530
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 225 #2327
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 288 #1820
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.

Source Firkin

Black Mamba #57
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.

Source Federica Pelzel