A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
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
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin