Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
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
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen