Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige paper with vintage look. Repeats to infinity, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
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 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin