Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
A seamless texture of a rough concrete surface.
Source V. Hartikainen
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Olive Green Web Background Image
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ