No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 11
Source GDJ
Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which 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
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin