Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Abstract Stars Geometric Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
Element of beach pattern with background.
Source Rones
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Original minus the background
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
This is the remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".The image depicts a seamless pattern of the front upper part of Japanese five yen coin which is used currently.This design represents a rice with ripe golden ears.
Source Yamachem
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
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo