A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
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
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski