Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden