Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Fix side and a seamless pattern formed from circles.
Source SliverKnight
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
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
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
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.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin