A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
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