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Using  patterns and swatches in your Adobe Illustrator projects lets you save time but still presents you with an opportunity to create beautiful designs. I have always been fascinated with plaid and swirl patterns, so in this roundup, I am going to list some of the free vector plaid, swirl, retro and other types of patterns that I found online. You may use these background patterns for not only graphic or web design but also for fashion design, textiles and package design. Also, since these background patterns are in vector format, you can also alter them if needed using drawing programs such as Illustrator or Corel Draw. Vector format also allows you to scale these background patterns into whatever size you want without losing quality. To download the background pattern that you want to use, just click on the link provided below each preview image.

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1. Background Patterns – Plaid Swatches from Colorburned
A fabulous set of plaid swatches from Colorburned Studios. This background patterns set contains 50 swatches/patterns that you may find useful in many of your web or graphic designs.

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2. Background Patterns- Woven Plaid Swatches

This is another beautiful background patterns set of woven plaid swatches containing 25 free swatches courtesy of Colorburned Studios. What makes this set different from the first set is the simulated twill texture that was applied to the swatches. These swatches may be used for both personal and commercial designs.

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3. Background Patterns - Ocean Waves Pattern Pack
Feel free to use these background patterns for desktop wallpaper, website background or any artwork that needs pattern. This set from ShoriAmeshiko contains 20 patterns and are available in both JPEG and Illustrator formats.

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4. Background Patterns- Ginko Leaves Pattern Pack
Another background patterns pack from ShoriAmeshiko, this set also contains 20 patterns/swatches. The files can be downloaded in JPEG and Illustrator formats.

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5. Background Patterns – Seamless Vector Patterns

Three background patterns for you to use however you can imagine! Some candy stripes, some retro-ish leaves and some dots on strings! Enjoy.

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6. Background Patterns – Batik is Beautiful

The design is based on a beautiful Indonesian batik fabric. Feel free to play around with this exotic background patterns design available in 3 different colors.

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7. Background Patterns – Trendy Illustrator Vector Swatch Patterns

This is a free set of eight Adobe Illustrator Swatch Patterns. These are seamless vector patterns that can be used to fill objects such as shapes, letters and words. These are compatible with Illustrator CS and above.

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8. Background Patterns – Victorian Scrapbooking Seamless Pattern

This set includes 7 background patterns. The files are in both Illustrator and Photoshop formats.

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9. Background Patterns – Vineyard Grape Patterns

This pack includes seamless background patterns swatches (which can also be used as brushes) for Illustrator.
& Image pack for Photoshop. Includes 9 patterns, which can also be downloaded in Photoshop format.

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10. Background Patterns – Fifties Wallpaper Pattern

For a retro look, try this patterns from AsseEyeDee.

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