It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
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 perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin