From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
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
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
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
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen