Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Clover with background for St. Patrick's Day. Add to a card with a doily, ribbon, a leprechaun or other embellishments.
Source BAJ
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin