A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
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
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Seamless pattern made from a tile that can be obtained in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable moss texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
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
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Fix side and a seamless pattern formed from circles.
Source SliverKnight
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin