An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A 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
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers