Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
Run a restaurant blog? Here you go. Done.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
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
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
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
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen