Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 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
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin