From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Here's a subtle marble-like background for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen