From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
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
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by susanlu4esm
Source Firkin