Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin