Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a Japanese family crest called "chidori" in Japanese .A chidori in Japanese means a plover in English.
Source Yamachem
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste