From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A browner version of the original weathered fence texture.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks. https://cloaks.deviantart.com
Source Atle Mo
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin