Background pattern 202 #2491
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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

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Floral pattern 18 #1716
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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

Simple bump #172
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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

Background pattern black #2026
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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

“Transparent” Background Pattern@2X #494
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An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.

Source AdamStanislav

Iron Grip #587
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Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.

Source Tony Kinard

Decorative divider 198 #2437
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From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.

Source Firkin

Decorative divider 293 #1752
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From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.

Source Firkin

Soft Circle Scales #113
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Japanese looking fish scale pattern.

Source Ian Soper

Background pattern 220 #2360
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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