From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró