From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
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 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive