From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith