Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
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 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin