From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac