Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
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
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
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
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin