Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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