This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen