From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
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
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Fix side and a seamless pattern formed from circles.
Source SliverKnight
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen