Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
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
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
The image a seamless pattern of a wire-mesh fence.I want you to use this pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin