From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
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
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
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Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
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Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
The tile this is based on was adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by frolicsomepl. It can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
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
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin