"Polished Stone", Gray Background Pattern #1053
 Stone  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).

Source V. Hartikainen

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Leafy design 18 (colour)@2XaFloral design 96 (colour) #1787
 Green  CC 0

From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.

Source Firkin

Textured Red Brown Plastic #878
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)

Source V. Hartikainen

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black #437
 Dark  CC 0

Retro Circles Background 8 No Black

Source GDJ

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

Filter pack #150
 Noise  CC 0

Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.

Source Lazur URH

Background pattern 238 #2229
 Red  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Colorful Stripes Background #400
 Noise  CC 0

Colorful Stripes Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 315 #1845
 Blue  CC 0

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

Source Firkin

Background pattern 221 (colour) #2346
 Yellow  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Cross pattern (negative) #2332
 Dark  CC 0

A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.

Source Firkin

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background #557
 Noise  CC 0

Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background

Source GDJ

Small Crackle Bright #352
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.

Source Markus Tinner

Background pattern 250 (colour 4) #2168
 Blue  CC 0

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

Source Firkin