From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A free repetitive background with a dark concrete wall like texture. This one may be used in dark web site designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo