From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin