From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
This is the remix of "polka dot seamless pattern".The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Strawberry Pattern Background" uploaded by "GDJ". Thanks. I realigned strawberries so as to get seamless and changed the BG color.
Source Yamachem
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
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 grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile