Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Looks like an old rug or a computer chip.
Source Patutin Sergey
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
Source V. Hartikainen