From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
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
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
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ