It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
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
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This is a remix of "geometrical pattern 01".
Source Yamachem
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
Paper model of a tetrahedron. Modelo de papel de um tetraedro.
Source laobc
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
A black tile-able background with paper-like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen