A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
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
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
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
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by CatherineClennan
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
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
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells book texture, 4k, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia