To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
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
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
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.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Used a cherry by doctormo to make this seamless pattern
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin