Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Pass parameters to the URL or edit the source code variables to configure the graph paper for the division desired.
Source JayNick
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin