Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Anerma.
Source Firkin
Pattern formed from simple shapes. Black version.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
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
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
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
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective