A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
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
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
This background pattern has futuristic look. So, maybe it could be used on websites or blogs dedicated to video games?!
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ