Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Feel free to use this seamless background texture as a background on a web site. It's colored in a light pink color and is seamlessly tile-able.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
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
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
The tile can be had by using shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige paper with vintage look. Repeats to infinity, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin