Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with some gradients.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen