As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin