From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ