Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
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
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
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
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
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by CatherineClennan
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin