Type@2X #277
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.

Source Atle Mo

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Mosaic tile #2481
 Brown  CC 0

From 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

Background pattern 251 (colour 3) #2165
 Blue  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Floral background 20 #1813
 Red  CC 0

Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885

Source Firkin

Stucco@2X #295
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.

Source Bartosz Kaszubowski

White Grunge Background #1124
 Grunge  CC BY-SA 3.0

This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.

Source V. Hartikainen

Random Binary Background #274
 Light  CC 0

Random Binary Background

Source GDJ

Checkered Light Emboss@2X #281
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!

Source Alex Parker

Diamond pattern (colour 6) #2280
 Yellow  CC 0

From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

crissXcross #111
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.

Source Ashton

Heart and rose pattern #2419
 Pink  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin