Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin