From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
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
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin