Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
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
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen