From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
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 dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
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
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin