A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
It looks very nice I think.
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
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin