From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
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
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin