From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
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The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
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.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
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