From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Pattern Background, Texture, Photoshop Structure style CC0 texture.
Source Darkmoon1968
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo