From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
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 version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
The image depicts a pattern of regular hexagon.As I made to use it for myself,I want to others to use it.Speaking about the ratio of the image, height : width = 2 : √3(1.732...)Ridiculous to say,I realized later that this image is not honey comb pattern.I have to slide the second row.
Source Yamachem
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Here's a new background image for websites with a seamless pink texture. It should look beautiful with website themes where light pink background is needed. The background is seamless, therefore it should be used as a tiled background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin