From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
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
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos