From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin