A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
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
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin