A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ