Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
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 simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
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
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker