Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
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
Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
Source Firkin
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
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 seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin