It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
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