Gun Metal #360
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?

Source Nikolay Boltachev

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Background pattern 226 (colour 5) #2317
 Blue  CC 0

A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Micro Carbon #7
 Carbon  CC BY-SA 3.0

Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.

Source Atle Mo

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background@2X #546
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background

Source GDJ

Connected #348
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

White circles connecting on a light gray background.

Source Mark Collins

Background pattern 226 (colour 2) #2320
 Green  CC 0

A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern pink #1954
 Pink  CC 0

To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Zig Zag #328
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.

Source Dmitriy Prodchenko

Brushed Alum #67
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.

Source Tim Ward

Simple bump #172
 Dark  CC 0

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

Background pattern 9 (colour) #214
 Noise  CC 0

Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 #401
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5

Source GDJ

Diamonds Are Forever@2X #184
 Diamond  CC BY-SA 3.0

Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.

Source Tom Neal

Background pattern 339 (colour) #1708
 Yellow  CC 0

The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Greek key pattern 5 #2294
 Dark  CC 0

Seamless pattern made from a tile that can be obtained in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 222 (colour 2) #2344
 Brown  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Fabric pattern (colour 3) #2400
 Fabric  CC 0

Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin