Mosaic tile #2481
Brown CC 0From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background #543
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Grey Sandbag@2X #642
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Rough Cloth #312
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Background pattern 256 #2139
Red CC 0Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Cream Paper@2X #1017
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Background pattern 199 #2508
Green CC 0Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Leafy design 18 (colour)@2XaFloral design 96 (colour) #1787
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Gray Striped Background #906
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Flourish pattern #1736
Dark CC 0Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Cardboard #278
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 #453
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Type@2X #277
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Snow@2X #628
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
Floral divider 4 #1750
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 227 #2314
Yellow CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Light Paper Fibers@2X #836
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Wavy background #2022
Blue CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
"Polished Blue Stone", Seamless Web Texture #1052
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0An abstract web texture of a polished blue stone (or does it look more like ice).
Source V. Hartikainen
White Well & Fissure #1701
Wall CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Background pattern 8 (greyscale) #210
Dark CC 0Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Tree and bird pattern #1982
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin