Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
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
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
This is the remix of an OCAL clipart called "Art Nouveau ornament" uploaded by "microcosme".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of an Art Nouveau ornament.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
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
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan