A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern made from a tile that can be obtained in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
If you want png files of thisu can download them here :
Source Viscious-Speed
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin