A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
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
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Cubes, geometry, 3D. What’s not to love?
Source Michael Atkins
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim