This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin