As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Just like the black maze, only in light gray. Duh.
Source Peax
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning