Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
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
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin