From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin