Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia's cakes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
Feel free to download this "Dark Wood" background texture for your web site. The background tiles seamlessly!
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso