From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved 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
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss