Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This is the remix of "Colorful Floral Pattern Background 3" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers