Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal