A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
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 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme to the original.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo