Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
This is a seamless pattern of regular hexagon which has a honeycomb structure.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
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
Clover with background for St. Patrick's Day. Add to a card with a doily, ribbon, a leprechaun or other embellishments.
Source BAJ
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
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
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
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen