A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin