From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
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
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem