Subtle Surface #925
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
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Background pattern 234 (colour 3) #2257
Blue CC 0Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 225 (colour 2) #2326
Yellow CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 6 #226
Noise CC 0A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
flower seamless pattern #2272
Brown CC 0This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
Dark Brick Wall@2X #136
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Diamond pattern (colour 7) #2274
Red CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background@2X #537
Diamond CC 0Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Mocha Grunge@2X #1100
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Diagonales Decalées #1018
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
Diagonal Striped Brick #679
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Graphene pattern 2 #2234
Dark CC 0Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Iron Grip #587
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Fabric pattern 2 (colour 6) #2391
Fabric CC 0Not 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
Black Mamba #57
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Block Well #1697
Colorful CC 0Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Floral pattern 12 #1766
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
Spiral background 2 #2245
Colorful CC 0Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background@2X #558
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Shapes pattern #2409
Brown CC 0A 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
White Leather #639
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
White Wave@2X #682
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
"Dark Brick Wall", Background Pattern #1024
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0Like the name suggests, this background image consists of a pattern of dark bricks. It may be an option for you, if you are looking for something that looks like a brick wall for use as a background on web pages. It's not a masterpiece, but looks pretty nice when is tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green and Yellow Lines on White Background #1000
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen