Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use 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
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker