From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Looks as if it's spray painted on the wall. You can be sure that this pattern will seamlessly fill your backgrounds on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
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
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert