Noisy #45
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.

Source Mladjan Antic

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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background@2X #550
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background

Source GDJ

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background #543
 Diamond  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background

Source GDJ

Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background #469
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background

Source GDJ

Paven #296
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.

Source Josh Green

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Retro Circles Background 5 No Black #426
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 5 No Black

Source GDJ

Background pattern 336 #1721
 Pink  CC 0

Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.

Source Firkin

Whitey #109
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A white version of the very popular linen pattern.

Source Ant Ekşiler

Background pattern 252 (colour 2) #2156
 Brown  CC 0

Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 265 #2081
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin