From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A nice and simple white rotated tile pattern.
Source Another One
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
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
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by DavidZydd
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo