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
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
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
Like the name suggests, this background image consists of a pattern of dark bricks. It may be an option for you, if you are looking for something that looks like a brick wall for use as a background on web pages. It's not a masterpiece, but looks pretty nice when is tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 6
Source GDJ