Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A free green background pattern with a pattern of rhombuses on a seamless texture. Feel free to use it as a tiled background image on your web site.
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin