Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
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
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett