Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin