From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen