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
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
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
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo