From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original seamless texture formed from an image on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
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
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen