Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 #461
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4

Source GDJ

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Background pattern 266 #2068
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.

Source Firkin

Seamless Wood Pattern #889
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.

Source V. Hartikainen

Soft Wallpaper #95
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Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.

Source Atle Mo

Decorative divider 231 #2149
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From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background@2X #529
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Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 6 #226
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A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 268 #2066
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i

Source Firkin

Pattern generator #161
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Fabric pattern (colour 6) #2397
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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

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
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Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Rough Cloth #312
 Fabric  CC BY-SA 3.0

More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.

Source Bartosz Kaszubowski