Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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