"Brown Stone Wall" #1026
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
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White Wave@2X #682
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Brushed Alum Dark #65
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
Background pattern 306 (colour 4) #1877
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Simple bump #172
Dark CC 0A 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
"Grunge-Like" Background Pattern #1126
Grunge CC BY-SA 3.0Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
Black Mamba #57
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Retro Intro #893
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Tessellation 11 (variant 2) #2539
Grid CC 0The original enhanced with some gradients.
Source Firkin
White Sand@2X #20
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Fall Leaves #243
Fabric CC 0Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
Wavy background #2018
Colorful CC 0CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Background pattern 203 (colour 2) #2485
Green CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Circular frame 26 #1711
Dark CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Confectionary #1342
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
Floral divider 6 #1748
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Double Lined #51
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Decorative divider 244 #2080
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 269 #2062
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Blue on White Background Pattern #993
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Finery #1370
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Vintage pattern #1958
Grid CC 0Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Floral background #1973
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin