The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ