To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
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
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
The image depicts a seamless pattern made using a bird's face.
Source Yamachem
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin