From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".This is the flowers of pink silk tree which is called "nemuno-ki".About pink silk tree ,refer to here:https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301210439/
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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
White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin