Green Fibers #91
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.

Source Matteo Di Capua

 More Textures
Background pattern 208 (colour 2) #2462
 Grid  CC 0

A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Light Aluminum #304
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.

Source Atle Mo

Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background #469
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background

Source GDJ

Smooth Dark Wall #1266
 Wall  CC 0

Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.

Source Sojan Janso

Geometric pattern #2003
 Grid  CC 0

A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Paper 3@2X #32
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.

Source Atle Mo

Lead glass tile #2048
 Colorful  CC 0

Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.

Source Firkin

crissXcross #111
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.

Source Ashton

Colourful background #2010
 Colorful  CC 0

Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic

Source Firkin

Floral pattern 7 (colour 5) #2287
 Green  CC 0

Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

regular hexagon pattern #2541
 Grid  CC 0

The image depicts a pattern of regular hexagon.As I made to use it for myself,I want to others to use it.Speaking about the ratio of the image, height : width = 2 : √3(1.732...)Ridiculous to say,I realized later that this image is not honey comb pattern.I have to slide the second row.

Source Yamachem

Micro Carbon@2X #8
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.

Source Atle Mo