From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Original minus the background
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
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
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin