Lorem Ipsum Background #1071
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Decorative divider 297 #1746
Pink CC 0From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider #1962
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
Colourful background #2010
Colorful CC 0Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Fabric pattern (colour 3) #2400
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Flourish 2 #2299
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 238 (colour 2) #2228
Green CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Beige Paper #83
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Wavy Green Vertical Stripes #936
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Use Your Illusion@2X #918
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Dark Denim #372
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Background pattern 226 (colour 6) #2316
Pink CC 0A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 239 (colour 2) #2216
Red CC 0To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Geometric pattern #2004
Grid CC 0A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Page ornament 54 #2059
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Redox 02@2X #852
Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Type #276
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Green Background Pattern with Warped Vertical Stripes #1328
Green CC BY-SA 3.0Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
Gold Scale #284
Light CC BY-SA 3.0More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Dark Dot #647
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background@2X #540
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Background pattern 339 (colour 2) #1707
Green CC 0The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 241 #2084
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
P4@2X #1112
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Txture #757
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae