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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
emixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kyotime
Source Firkin