A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
One more updated pattern. Not really carbon fiber, but it’s the most popular pattern, so I’ll give you an extra choice.
Source Atle Mo
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen