A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin