As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polyskelion Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ
The image a seamless pattern of a wire-mesh fence.I want you to use this pattern as a lower layer.
Source Yamachem
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen