Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
The image a seamless pattern of a wire-mesh fence.I want you to use this pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
This is a more minute version of "fishnet 01".The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor