Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
This is a remix of "geometrical pattern 01".
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
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
Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin