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
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper