To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin