Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
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
Alternative colour scheme. 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
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen