Background pattern purple #1998
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

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Noisy #45
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.

Source Mladjan Antic

Cincinnati tablet 2 #2146
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.

Source Firkin

fence pattern #2487
 Grid  CC 0

The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".

Source Yamachem

Prismatic Dots Background 5@2X #510
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background 5

Source GDJ

Seamless Core Pattern 6 #170
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless Core Pattern 6

Source GDJ

Sakura Blossoms Background #389
 Noise  CC 0

Sakura Blossoms Background

Source GDJ

Polonez Pattern@2X #335
 Gray  CC BY-SA 3.0

A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!

Source Radosław Rzepecki

Dark Denim@2X #373
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.

Source Marco Slooten

Wood #49
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.

Source Atle Mo
Based from Cloaks

Background pattern 5 #224
 Noise  CC 0

A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 192 #2503
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 306 (colour 4) #1877
 Colorful  CC 0

Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Black Paper #55
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Black paper texture, based on two different images.

Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle

Background pattern 112 #263
 Fabric  CC 0

A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.

Source Firkin

Mosaic tile #2481
 Brown  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.

Source Firkin