From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Star Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo