Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin