A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
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
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin