Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Here's a subtle marble-like background for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
A free pink background pattern.
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
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
The tile this is based on was adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by frolicsomepl. It can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin