In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts a seamless pattern which was made using stripe-like things including borders.I used OCAL cliparts called "Blue Greek Key With Lines Border" uploaded by "GR8DAN" and "daisy border" uploaded by "johnny_automatic".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie