The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
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 seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Extra Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin