The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
The image is a seamless pattern which is derived from a vine .Consequently, the vine got like dots via vectorization.The original vine is here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301410188/
Source Yamachem
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
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
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover red book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud