Triangles@2X #128
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.

Source Ivan Ginev

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edo pattern-samekomon #2271
 Dark  CC 0

The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.

Source Yamachem

Black Linen@2X #64
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.

Source Atle Mo

Retro Squares Background 5 #395
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Squares Background 5

Source GDJ

Orange Striped Background Pattern #909
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.

Source V. Hartikainen

Colorful Floral Background 3@2X #484
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 3

Source GDJ

Background pattern 235 (colour 6) #2250
 Red  CC 0

To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern yellow #1999
 Yellow  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Background pattern 306 (colour 6) #1878
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Seamless Core Pattern 2 #166
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless Core Pattern 2

Source GDJ

Background pattern 309 (colour 4) #1863
 Green  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Darth Stripe@2X #100
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Diagonal lines with a lot of texture to them.

Source Ashton

Smooth Dark Wall #1266
 Wall  CC 0

Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.

Source Sojan Janso

Background pattern 277 #2029
 Dark  CC 0

A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.

Source Firkin

Fake Brick #358
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Black, simple, elegant, and useful.

Source Marat

Carbon Fiber #3
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

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 Groovy Concentric Background 3 #457
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3

Source GDJ

Glass block pattern #2477
 Brown  CC 0

Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.

Source Firkin