diff --git a/pkg/registry/blobs.go b/pkg/registry/blobs.go
index c83e54799..c4af9d5b2 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/blobs.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/blobs.go
@@ -302,13 +302,19 @@ func (b *blobs) handle(resp http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) *regError {
 		}
 
 		if rangeHeader != "" {
-			start, end := int64(0), int64(0)
+			start, end := int64(0), size-1
+			// Try parsing as "bytes=start-end" first
 			if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(rangeHeader, "bytes=%d-%d", &start, &end); err != nil {
-				return &regError{
-					Status:  http.StatusRequestedRangeNotSatisfiable,
-					Code:    "BLOB_UNKNOWN",
-					Message: "We don't understand your Range",
+				// Try parsing as "bytes=start-" (open-ended range)
+				if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(rangeHeader, "bytes=%d-", &start); err != nil {
+					return &regError{
+						Status:  http.StatusRequestedRangeNotSatisfiable,
+						Code:    "BLOB_UNKNOWN",
+						Message: "We don't understand your Range",
+					}
 				}
+				// For open-ended range, end is the last byte of the blob
+				end = size - 1
 			}
 
 			n := (end + 1) - start
diff --git a/pkg/v1/remote/fetcher.go b/pkg/v1/remote/fetcher.go
index d77b37c0c..1ce29815f 100644
--- a/pkg/v1/remote/fetcher.go
+++ b/pkg/v1/remote/fetcher.go
@@ -245,6 +245,37 @@ func (f *fetcher) headManifest(ctx context.Context, ref name.Reference, acceptab
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// contextKey is a type for context keys used in this package
+type contextKey string
+
+const resumeOffsetKey contextKey = "resumeOffset"
+const resumeOffsetsKey contextKey = "resumeOffsets"
+
+// WithResumeOffset returns a context with the resume offset set for a single blob
+func WithResumeOffset(ctx context.Context, offset int64) context.Context {
+	return context.WithValue(ctx, resumeOffsetKey, offset)
+}
+
+// WithResumeOffsets returns a context with resume offsets for multiple blobs (keyed by digest)
+func WithResumeOffsets(ctx context.Context, offsets map[string]int64) context.Context {
+	return context.WithValue(ctx, resumeOffsetsKey, offsets)
+}
+
+// getResumeOffset retrieves the resume offset from context for a given digest
+func getResumeOffset(ctx context.Context, digest string) int64 {
+	// First check if there's a specific offset for this digest
+	if offsets, ok := ctx.Value(resumeOffsetsKey).(map[string]int64); ok {
+		if offset, found := offsets[digest]; found && offset > 0 {
+			return offset
+		}
+	}
+	// Fall back to single offset (for fetchBlob)
+	if offset, ok := ctx.Value(resumeOffsetKey).(int64); ok {
+		return offset
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 func (f *fetcher) fetchBlob(ctx context.Context, size int64, h v1.Hash) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	u := f.url("blobs", h.String())
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, u.String(), nil)
@@ -252,23 +283,58 @@ func (f *fetcher) fetchBlob(ctx context.Context, size int64, h v1.Hash) (io.Read
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Check if we should resume from a specific offset
+	resumeOffset := getResumeOffset(ctx, h.String())
+	if resumeOffset > 0 {
+		// Add Range header to resume download
+		req.Header.Set("Range", fmt.Sprintf("bytes=%d-", resumeOffset))
+	}
+
 	resp, err := f.client.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, redact.Error(err)
 	}
 
-	if err := transport.CheckError(resp, http.StatusOK); err != nil {
+	// Accept both 200 OK (full content) and 206 Partial Content (resumed)
+	if resumeOffset > 0 {
+		// If we requested a Range but got 200, the server doesn't support ranges
+		// We'll have to download from scratch
+		if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
+			// Server doesn't support range requests, will download full content
+			resumeOffset = 0
+		}
+	}
+
+	if err := transport.CheckError(resp, http.StatusOK, http.StatusPartialContent); err != nil {
 		resp.Body.Close()
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	// Do whatever we can.
-	// If we have an expected size and Content-Length doesn't match, return an error.
-	// If we don't have an expected size and we do have a Content-Length, use Content-Length.
+	// For partial content (resumed downloads), we can't verify the hash on the stream
+	// since we're only getting part of the file. The complete file will be verified
+	// after all bytes are written to disk.
+	if resumeOffset > 0 && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusPartialContent {
+		// Verify Content-Length matches expected remaining size
+		if hsize := resp.ContentLength; hsize != -1 {
+			if size != verify.SizeUnknown {
+				expectedRemaining := size - resumeOffset
+				if hsize != expectedRemaining {
+					resp.Body.Close()
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("GET %s: Content-Length header %d does not match expected remaining size %d", u.String(), hsize, expectedRemaining)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		// Return the body without verification - we'll verify the complete file later
+		return io.NopCloser(resp.Body), nil
+	}
+
+	// For full downloads, verify the stream
+	// Do whatever we can with size validation
 	if hsize := resp.ContentLength; hsize != -1 {
 		if size == verify.SizeUnknown {
 			size = hsize
 		} else if hsize != size {
+			resp.Body.Close()
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("GET %s: Content-Length header %d does not match expected size %d", u.String(), hsize, size)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/v1/remote/image.go b/pkg/v1/remote/image.go
index f085967ed..896b2ef07 100644
--- a/pkg/v1/remote/image.go
+++ b/pkg/v1/remote/image.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package remote
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
@@ -195,6 +196,9 @@ func (rl *remoteImageLayer) Compressed() (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 		urls = append(urls, *u)
 	}
 
+	// Check if we should resume from a specific offset
+	resumeOffset := getResumeOffset(ctx, rl.digest.String())
+
 	// The lastErr for most pulls will be the same (the first error), but for
 	// foreign layers we'll want to surface the last one, since we try to pull
 	// from the registry first, which would often fail.
@@ -206,18 +210,46 @@ func (rl *remoteImageLayer) Compressed() (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 
+		// Add Range header for resumable downloads
+		if resumeOffset > 0 {
+			req.Header.Set("Range", fmt.Sprintf("bytes=%d-", resumeOffset))
+		}
+
 		resp, err := rl.ri.fetcher.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
 		if err != nil {
 			lastErr = err
 			continue
 		}
 
-		if err := transport.CheckError(resp, http.StatusOK); err != nil {
+		// Accept both 200 OK (full content) and 206 Partial Content (resumed)
+		if err := transport.CheckError(resp, http.StatusOK, http.StatusPartialContent); err != nil {
 			resp.Body.Close()
 			lastErr = err
 			continue
 		}
 
+		// If we requested a range but got 200, server doesn't support ranges
+		// We'll get the full content
+		if resumeOffset > 0 && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
+			resumeOffset = 0
+		}
+
+		// For partial content (resumed downloads), we can't verify the hash on the stream
+		// since we're only getting part of the file. The complete file will be verified
+		// after all bytes are written to disk.
+		if resumeOffset > 0 && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusPartialContent {
+			// Verify we got the expected remaining size
+			expectedRemaining := d.Size - resumeOffset
+			if resp.ContentLength != -1 && resp.ContentLength != expectedRemaining {
+				resp.Body.Close()
+				lastErr = fmt.Errorf("partial content size mismatch: got %d, expected %d", resp.ContentLength, expectedRemaining)
+				continue
+			}
+			// Return the body without verification - we'll verify the complete file later
+			return io.NopCloser(resp.Body), nil
+		}
+
+		// For full downloads, verify the stream
 		return verify.ReadCloser(resp.Body, d.Size, rl.digest)
 	}