From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
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
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 6
Source GDJ