Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
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
Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen