From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
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
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Abstract Stars Geometric Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Formed by distorting an image on Pixabay that was uploaded by gustavorezende. To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
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
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
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
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
The following repeating website background is colored in a blue gray color and resembles a concrete wall or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen