I created these sets from public domain works on Project Gutenberg. (I am also a newbie at this.)

Batik.zip contains patterns from Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Ida Strawn Baker and Walter Davis Baker.
Source material at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49823
Stencils at
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4568779/Batik.zip

Beeton's Book of Needlework.zip contains patterns from the book of the same name.
Source material at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15147
Stencils at
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Needlework.zip