A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The following repeating website background is colored in a blue gray color and resembles a concrete wall or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This background pattern has futuristic look. So, maybe it could be used on websites or blogs dedicated to video games?!
Source V. Hartikainen
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen