Seamless patterns are great for a vast number of things, the biggest benefit of using seamless patterns is visible when they’re implemented online. Websites with large background images can take a lot longer to load than those who utilize either a solid color, or seamless background images such as the patterns below. This particular collection focuses on paper textures, brilliant for all kinds of design. 

There has always been great resources available online for designers and developers, and I’ve been using these myself since I started making websites some twelve years ago – that’s the fantastic thing about the web community. Now I’m using Subtle Patterns as my way of giving back to the next (and current) generation of web designers and developers or anyone else who needs some high quality patterns. – Atle Mo of SubtlePatterns.com

Download these, and many more over on Subtle Patterns.

Looking for some premium paper textures?

Free resources are fantastic and can certainly get you results, however, premium resources are a whole different kettle of fish.

100 Grungy Paper and Card Textures (Plus Bonus Tutorial)

The most comprehensive paper and card texture pack available anywhere. This pack includes 100 high-res textures, featuring a range of grungy paper and card surfaces. At just $10, this pack is the ultimate value for money. (Purchase $10)

37 Vintage Paper Textures

Each and every beautiful, high-resolution vintage paper textures within this pack has been sourced from our rapidly growing private library of pre-1900 books (some are more than 300 years old!). While we primarily use these books to source illustrations, we have recently started turning to them for their perfectly imperfect textures. (Purchase $14)

94 Vintage Leather & Paper Textures

This superb collection of high-resolution vintage textures were collected from a 1789 pocket journal that we acquired for $110 (an absolute steal!). We were so excited to find this piece of history and even more so when we found what was within. (Purchase $19)

Vintage Paper Textures Mega Pack

This mega bundle includes all 100 vintage paper textures from my individual listings. They are printable at 8.5″ x 11″ at 300 ppi in .JPG format. Vintage and antique papers including envelopes, postcards, report cards, Bingo cards, handwriting, typewritten pages, invoices, ledger pages and more. (Purchase $25)