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Background pattern 231 #2301
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Soft Wallpaper #95
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.

Source Atle Mo

Decorative divider 192 #2503
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.

Source Firkin

Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background@2X #570
 Light  CC 0

Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).

Source GDJ

Dark Steel Grid Background Pattern #1081
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!

Source V. Hartikainen

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

Part of Bayeux Tapestry 2 #2451
 Noise  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.

Source Firkin

“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 green #1947
 Green  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 263 #2073
 Pink  CC 0

Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 306 (colour 2) #1881
 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

Background pattern 6 #225
 Noise  CC 0

Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Tessellation 16 #2215
 Yellow  CC 0

The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin