Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
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
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Used a cherry by doctormo to make this seamless pattern
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
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