A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-yellow.
Source Yamachem
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
Source Firkin