A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste