Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
The 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 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk