Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
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
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
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes