That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
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
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
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells book texture, 4k, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen