Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Honestly, who does not like a little pipe and mustache?
Source Luca Errico
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks.
Source Yamachem
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A 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 Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin