From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo