A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
f you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
The starting point for this was drawn on the web site steamcoded.org/PolyskelionMaker.svg
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using 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
Real snow that tiles, not easy. This is not perfect, but an attempt.
Source Atle Mo
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin