Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A web texture of brown canvas. Will look great, when used in dark web designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen