Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern of leopard skin. It should look nice as a background element on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
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 tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
An abstract web texture of a polished blue stone (or does it look more like ice).
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ