Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
This is the remix of "polka dot seamless pattern".The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
A frame using leaves from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mayapujiati
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
This is the remix of "Strawberry Pattern Background" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks. I realigned strawberries so as to get seamless and changed the BG color.
Source Yamachem
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen