An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Alternative 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
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
A 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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae