This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
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 smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx