From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
A repeating background for websites with a texture of black groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine