The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Used a cherry by doctormo to make this seamless pattern
Source Firkin
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Actually, there's no clouds in it, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin