This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
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Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
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Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
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Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
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Source Firkin
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin