Dark Tire #703
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
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Subtle Dots@2X #922
Light CC BY-SA 3.0As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Background pattern 227 (colour 3) #2312
Pink CC 0A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 272 #2057
Brown CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Knitted Netting@2X #604
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Background pattern 251 #2167
Dark CC 0To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
45-Degree Fabric@2X #2
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Plywood Web Background #871
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 225 (colour 5) #2323
Blue CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 210 #2364
Dark CC 0Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Indian Red Web Background #1172
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Grunge Website Background #1122
Grunge CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Wood Pattern #889
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background #534
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black@2X #486
Light CC 0Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Cube Well & Blue #1699
Wall CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Rebel #829
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 #453
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Decorative divider 212 #2343
Dark CC 0Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
seigaiha subtle color #2278
Pink CC 0This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Seed #1289
Wall CC 0Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 4) #2393
Fabric CC 0Not 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