You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Looks as if it's spray painted on the wall. You can be sure that this pattern will seamlessly fill your backgrounds on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin