The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
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
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod