This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
Actually, there's no clouds in it, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo