From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin