A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Inspired by an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by geralt
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous