From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
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
This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen