Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
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 one is something special. I’d call it a flat pattern, too. Very well done, sir!
Source GetDiscount
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin