Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
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
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin
Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin