From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
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
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This light yellow background pattern consists of an irregular pattern of spots. Here's a light background pattern with yellowish tint.
Source V. Hartikainen
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin