From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
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
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
emixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kyotime
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin