In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
An abstract web texture of a polished blue stone (or does it look more like ice).
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC bark from fur tree tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry