Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12
Source GDJ
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
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
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
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen