From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor