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 seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
emixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kyotime
Source Firkin
A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett