From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
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
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective