Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
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
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
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
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk