Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec