From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ