Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Fix side and a seamless pattern formed from circles.
Source SliverKnight
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens