Little Knobs #310
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!

Source Amos

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Prismatic Dots Background@2X #502
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background

Source GDJ

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 2) #2038
 Colorful  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

A dark wool background pattern with diagonal stripes #907
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.

Source V. Hartikainen

Vintage tile background (colour 3) #2246
 Green  CC 0

A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Floral design 90 #1815
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.

Source Firkin

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

Patchwork Quilt Pattern Background #228
 Noise  CC 0

PDP

Source GDJ

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background #555
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background

Source GDJ

Tessellation 15 (colour 4) #2219
 Green  CC 0

The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 4) #2036
 Colorful  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background #553
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 66 #195
 Wall  CC 0

A background pattern drawn in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Pattern generator #161
 Noise  CC 0

A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 224 (colour 3) #2340
 Colorful  CC 0

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

Source Firkin