From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste