In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
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