Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
The image is a seamless pattern which is derived from a vine .Consequently, the vine got like dots via vectorization.The original vine is here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301410188/
Source Yamachem
This light blue background pattern is quite pleasing to the eye, it consists of a tiny rough grid pattern, which is seamless by design. That's it, if you like the color, you can use this seamless pattern in a web design without making any further modifications to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3
Source GDJ
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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
This background pattern has futuristic look. So, maybe it could be used on websites or blogs dedicated to video games?!
Source V. Hartikainen
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".The image depicts a seamless pattern of the front upper part of Japanese five yen coin which is used currently.This design represents a rice with ripe golden ears.
Source Yamachem
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell