Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
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
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin