You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
The image depicts a seamless pattern which was made using stripe-like things including borders.I used OCAL cliparts called "Blue Greek Key With Lines Border" uploaded by "GR8DAN" and "daisy border" uploaded by "johnny_automatic".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin