From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
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
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
ZeroCC tileable mossy (lichen) stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin