To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
I have no idea how to describe this one, but it’s light and delicate.
Source JBasoo
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
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
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
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
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin