From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
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
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
This is the remix of "plant pattern 02".I changed the object color to white and the BG to purple.The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo