From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
The image depicts a seamless pattern made using a bird's face.
Source Yamachem
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
Source Firkin