From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
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 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
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
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
A nice and simple white rotated tile pattern.
Source Another One
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß