Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable Laminate wood texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
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
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers