From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen