Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
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
Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
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
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen