Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
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
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
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
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile 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