I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
Seamless Olive Green Web Background Image
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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
Adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Anerma.
Source Firkin
Pass parameters to the URL or edit the source code variables to configure the graph paper for the division desired.
Source JayNick
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton