A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
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
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen