From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
Original minus the background
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
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
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin