From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
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 pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
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
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen