Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
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
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen