Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin