From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Star Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem