Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
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
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin