White Bed Sheet@2X #822
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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Background pattern 306 (colour 4) #1877
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Cubes #133
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens
Colourful background 14 #2526
Colorful CC 0A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Brushed Alum@2X #68
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Stylized lion design #2089
Dark CC 0Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin
Green Fibers #91
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Tactile Noise@2X #6
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Subtle Surface #925
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Floral design 99 #1776
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 10 #216
Noise CC 0A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Subtle White Feathers@2X #1104
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Decorative divider 226 #2178
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Faded Diagonal Stripes #1001
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Notebook@2X #1179
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Colourful background #2007
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Cream Paper@2X #1017
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Cloth Alike@2X #1094
Light CC BY-SA 3.0You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Background pattern 4 #223
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
Background Pattern Green #1939
Green CC 0Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Wood Pattern@2X #371
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Background pattern 202 #2491
Brown CC 0Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 200 #2506
Pink CC 0Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
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