From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's an yet another background for websites, with a seamless texture of wood planks this time.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars