The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen