From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a snow crystal.I referred to a book called ”sekka-zusetsu” or "雪華図説" which means an illustrated explanation about snow crystals.This book was published in 1832 (天保3年) or Edo period.For more about "雪華図説",see here:dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2536975
Source Yamachem
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
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 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Formed by distorting an image on Pixabay that was uploaded by gustavorezende. To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem
A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight