Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-yellow.
Source Yamachem
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo