Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Zero CC bark from fur tree tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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