Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
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
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ