From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
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 created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a Japanese family crest called "chidori" in Japanese .A chidori in Japanese means a plover in English.
Source Yamachem
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless marble-like texture colored in light blue.
Source V. Hartikainen
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo