Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
Neat little photography icon pattern.
Source Hossam Elbialy
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin