From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
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
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo