As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.
Source Sander Ottens