My Little Plaid #332
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Repeating squares overlapping.

Source Pete Fecteau

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Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black@2X #486
 Light  CC 0

Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black

Source GDJ

Pattern generator #161
 Noise  CC 0

A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

shell pattern #2533
 Brown  CC 0

The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.

Source Yamachem

Background pattern 308 (colour 2) #1871
 Green  CC 0

Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 4 #223
 Noise  CC 0

A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!

Source Firkin

Retro Circles Background 8@2X #436
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 8

Source GDJ

Fabric pattern 2 (colour 5) #2392
 Fabric  CC 0

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

Prismatic Dots Background 3 #505
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background 3

Source GDJ

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black@2X #456
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black

Source GDJ

Prismatic Pointers Background #388
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Pointers Background

Source GDJ

Fabric pattern 2 (colour 4) #2393
 Fabric  CC 0

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

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background@2X #558
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Dark Denim #29
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

A dark denim looking pattern. 145×145 pixels.

Source Atle Mo