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

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"Black Chains", Gloomy Background #1082
 Metal  CC BY-SA 3.0

A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.

Source V. Hartikainen

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 #465
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5

Source GDJ

Inflicted #117
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.

Source Hugo Loning

Prismatic Dots Background #501
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Dots Background

Source GDJ

Whitey@2X #110
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A white version of the very popular linen pattern.

Source Ant Ekşiler

Floral design 71 #2429
 Dark  CC 0

From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.

Source Firkin

Old Mathematics@2X #44
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.

Source Josh Green

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black #467
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black

Source GDJ

Prismatic 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 6 #148
 Dark  CC 0

Prismatic 3D Isometric Tessellation Pattern 6

Source GDJ

Parquet flooring pattern (colour 2) #2426
 Green  CC 0

A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.

Source Firkin