This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture of a rough concrete surface.
Source V. Hartikainen
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Clover with background for St. Patrick's Day. Add to a card with a doily, ribbon, a leprechaun or other embellishments.
Source BAJ