Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
This is the remix of "polka dot seamless pattern".The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
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
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Prismatic 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 6
Source GDJ
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin