Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A free repetitive background with a dark concrete wall like texture. This one may be used in dark web site designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen