A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
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
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin