From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Inspired by an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by geralt
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
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
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen