Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
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
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien