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A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.

Source V. Hartikainen

Filter pack #150
 Noise  CC 0

Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern black and white #2030
 Dark  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 19 (black) #203
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Square ornament 38 #2147
 Dark  CC 0

From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.

Source Firkin

Black Linen #63
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Source Atle Mo

Background pattern 289 (colour 2) #1936
 Red  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Colorful Floral Background 3 #483
 Dark  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 3

Source GDJ