From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Dark Tile-able Grunge Texture. I think this texture can be classified as grunge. It's free and seamless, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light gray background pattern with seamless fabric-like texture and almost unnoticeable stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by geralt
Source Firkin
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
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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 starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH