From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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
Remixed 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
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper