Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin