From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
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
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Fake or not, it’s quite luxurious.
Source Factorio.us Collective
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen