From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
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
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A web texture of brown canvas. Will look great, when used in dark web designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ