From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin