Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Watercolor Vintage style CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin