From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
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
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
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
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
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
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica