From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
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
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
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
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell