The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
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
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
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
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
Source Firkin
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem