Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
The texture of this background image has some similarities with leather, and it's colored in a dark brown color. So, if you are looking for a dark brown background image for your website, this may be an option for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin