From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin