Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
To get the tile this is based on, 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
Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao