Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Paper model of a tetrahedron. Modelo de papel de um tetraedro.
Source laobc
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra