From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
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
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5
Source GDJ