Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
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
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin