Fabric (Plaid) #591
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.

Source James Basoo

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Cardboard #278
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.

Source Atle Mo

Foggy Birds #579
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?

Source Pete Fecteau

Background pattern 226 #2321
 Brown  CC 0

A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

crissXcross #111
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.

Source Ashton

Retro Circles Background 7@2X #432
 Unknow  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 7

Source GDJ

Washi@2X #289
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!

Source Carolynne

Background pattern 266 #2068
 Dark  CC 0

Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 224 (colour 6) #2337
 Colorful  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Gray Sand@2X #18
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.

Source Atle Mo

Seamless Prismatic Quadrilateral Line Art Pattern No Background #379
 Diamond  CC 0

Seamless Prismatic Quadrilateral Line Art Pattern No Background

Source GDJ

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background #491
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 227 (colour 5) #2310
 Colorful  CC 0

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