From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
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
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen