More Textures
Micro Carbon #7
 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

Background pattern 225 (colour 2) #2326
 Yellow  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern yellow #2025
 Yellow  CC 0

Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

R.I.P Steve Jobs@2X #293
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

Source Atle Mo

Abstract Tiled Background Extended 9 #520
 Dark  CC 0

Abstract Tiled Background Extended 9

Source GDJ

A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Background pattern 252 (colour 4) #2159
 Light  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

paper filer pack 2 #140
 Noise  CC 0

A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 223 (colour 5) #2349
 Blue  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Black Linen@2X #64
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo