From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
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 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The image is a seamless pattern which is derived from a vine .Consequently, the vine got like dots via vectorization.The original vine is here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301410188/
Source Yamachem
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning