Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Paper model of a tetrahedron. Modelo de papel de um tetraedro.
Source laobc
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
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae