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 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
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
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
This is the remix of "polka dot seamless pattern".The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo