As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
ZeroCC tileable beechwood wood texture, generated in Neo Texture Edit by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Here's a new gray "fabric" pattern. Use it as backgrounds for websites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
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
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin