Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko