Mosaic tile #2481
 Brown  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.

Source Firkin

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White Brick Wall #593
 Wall  CC BY-SA 3.0

If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.

Source Listvetra

Street Art Pattern #1196
 Concrete  CC BY-SA 3.0

Looks as if it's spray painted on the wall. You can be sure that this pattern will seamlessly fill your backgrounds on web pages.

Source V. Hartikainen

Retro Squares Background 7 #397
 Noise  CC 0

Retro Squares Background 7

Source GDJ

Lego background #266
 Noise  CC 0

Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.

Source Firkin

Brushed Alum #67
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.

Source Tim Ward

Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale #378
 Dark  CC 0

Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale

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

Foggy Birds #579
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?

Source Pete Fecteau

Electric recharge #163
 Noise  CC 0

Simple turbulence filter rigged in in inkscape.

Source Lazur URH

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

Whitey@2X #110
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

A white version of the very popular linen pattern.

Source Ant Ekşiler

Background pattern 227 (colour 3) #2312
 Pink  CC 0

A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.

Source Firkin