If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
Source Firkin
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
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin