Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab