If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
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
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
A green background pattern with warped vertical stripes and a grunge look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin