Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin