The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
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
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos
A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers